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This sounds to me like an AMCL problem. You could make the map "by hand" or using SLAM. But once you have it, AMCL will be able to figure out where the robot is on the map, and the navigation stack will use that to compute paths, while in real time it uses /scanner data to avoid obstacles not on the map

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