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Odometry is guaranteed to evolve over time in a continuous matter. So when your robot jumps for some reason (either you move the model in simulation, or your localization snaps the robot back in place), the odometry will not follow this jump. See this link for more details: http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0105.html

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