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But how to come up with realistic covariance information

Just set the covariance matrix diagonal values to some small value, such as 0.0001, and set the non-diagonal values to 0.0. Alternatively, you can set all the matrix values to 0.0, and ekf_localization_node will automatically set them to a small, but nonzero, value.

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