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What you describe in the comments matches the manufacturer's smaller robot, the Jackal. On that robot, they use a rosserial-master to pass the cmd_vel message to a proprietary circuit board called the MCU. As far as I know, the manufacturer does not provide a software API to send commands to the individual wheels, so I doubt that direct wheel velocity control is possible (at least, not without a hardware hack that would completely void the warranty.)