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I suggest you follow the ROS Navigation Tutorials, which will walk you through setting up a full navigation stack on your robot. This is much more involved than the simple node that BhanuKiran.Chaluvadi suggested, but you'll end up with a highly capable path planning system that can handle obstacles once you add sensors.

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