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It is correct, this tutorial creates the odom frame, which is needed if you are not using the plugins for the simulation and want to publish odom on a real robot. That code above publishes the Odometry values and setting the child_frame to be the base_link would actually move your URDF described robot in RViz based on the Odometry values.

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