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First of all you need odometry information. Becase navigation stack needs /odom info. Odometry is generally calculated from encoder wheels.right wheels and left wheels give you velocity of your robot and theta of your robot angle in space.

I think firstly you should get encoders and learn how to calculate odometry. And of course how to publish odometry inforamtion

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