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You can cancel a navigation goal by publishing on the /move_base/cancel topic:

rostopic pub /move_base/cancel actionlib_msgs/GoalID -- {}

This will cancel all the navigation goals that are given and you dont need to kill and restart move_base. You can write a node that monitors the speed/odometry or acceleration and cancel the goal within it based on your custom logic.

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