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The answer to this question actually had to do with the names of the joints of my robot. the names of my joints were "link_0__link_1" and "link_1__link_2". I changed them to "joint1" and "joint2" respectively, and this fixed my problem. I suspect that the issue is related to the '_' character, and however it is encoded in the JointState message

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