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Hi,

Did you send a command for the desired velocity ? if not, just open another tab on your terminal and run:

rostopic pub /cmd_vel geometry_msgs/Twist '[2.0,0.0,0.0]' '[5.0,1.0,0.0]'.

The numbers in the arg are arbitrary, you can try yours depending on the linear and angular velocity you need.

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