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For each wheel, an increasing value for position is the axel rotation that moves the robot's base_link in the +x direction. So the commercial robot got this right. The orientation of motors is ignored. I deduced this from reading the source code of Odometry::update() in the diff_drive_controller directory of ros_control.

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