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Yes, it is possible.

Of course, you won't have any collision avoidance and your movements will be based on dead-reckoning. Depending on the setup, you'd probably have to remove all obvervation_sources from the costmap setup and switch the global frame to whatever your robot can provide, e.g. /odom.

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