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The problem is that you're using dummy link as your fixed frame. It has a fixed joint to your robot's chassis, so while the robot is moving through the world you're moving alongside it, giving the appearance of no movement at all.

Try changing the fixed frame to maybe "world", "map" or "odom" if you have those in your tf tree.

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