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In general when sending command velocities, you need to publish continually, not just once. Try something like:

rostopic pub -r 10 /b21/cmd_vel geometry_msgs/Twist '[0.8,0,0]' '[0,0,0]'

In general when sending command velocities, you need to publish continually, not just once. Try something like:

rostopic pub -r 10 /b21/cmd_vel geometry_msgs/Twist '[0.8,0,0]' '[0,0,0]'

This protects against losing control of the robot when bad things happen (like network interruptions, or controller node crashes).