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Assuming you have a supported motor controller and encoder interface, the ros_arduino_bridge package publishes wheel odometry data on the /odom topic. Since the laser_scan_matcher has the option of subscribing to the /odom topic to augment the laser scan matching, then the answer is "yes".

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