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The LocalizerNode is just a wrapper around the particle filter used in amcl. You can check the documentation there, and there is also a lot of literature on localization methods, likely the best being Probabilistic Robotics.

To understand how the rest of nav2d works, please refer to the Tutorials and the API-Documentation.

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