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I think the best way to do this in order to take advantage of all the goodies ROS has to offer, is to implement an interface for ros_control. You can check the ros_control github wiki for some tutorials. It might seem too much work at first, but once you implement it almost any navigation-related package will be compatible with your robot. Good luck!

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