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You can follow the usual tutorials on navigation. As mentioned in another answer, tracked vehicles have a poor odometry, but that can be overcome with alternative odometry packages such as hector_slam or laser_scan_matcher.

As you are outdoors, you can also use robot_localization to integrate your GPS with other localization sources.

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