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amcl receives its odometry informations through the /odom -> /base_link transform. (Or whatever you have set as odom_frame_id and base_frame_id parameters)

This means that you need a node (typically your hardware abstraction) that accumulates odom information from your base-robot and publish the aggregated pose as a transform.

So no, laser only will not be sufficient.

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