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One of the main advantages of using ros_control is that you can reuse existing robot-agnostic code, such as the Gazebo simulator backend and robot controllers. For onmidirectional bases, there is currently no officially supported controller (only diff-drive), although there are implementations out there that expose ROS APIs compatible with the navigation stack.

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