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What states are you setting and what topics/tfs are you monitoring in rviz? If you're changing the position of the robot directly and you've got rviz set up to monitor odometry (or something equivalent), this would be expected behaviour. After all, the robot wheels (real or simulated) haven't moved, and that's needed for odometry to change.

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