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About the possibility to synchronize the costmap with the robot heading, I found that you can set the following parameters in the configuration file:

 global_frame    : base_footprint 
 robot_base_frame: base_footprint

In this way, the costmap will follow the robot also in orientation changes. Hope it is useful.

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