diff_drive_controller failing to launch

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I want to implement differential drive on a 4 Wheel robot of my own, similar to the Husky and Jackal. In fact both of these mobile robots use diff_drive_controller. However when I implement the controller I get the following problem:

[ERROR] [1595632494.285913005, 0.476000000]: Robot description couldn't be retrieved from param server.
[ERROR] [1595632494.285965899, 0.476000000]: Failed to initialize the controller
[ERROR] [1595632494.286022155, 0.476000000]: Initializing controller 'differential_drive' failed
[ERROR] [1595632495.287013, 1.468000]: Failed to load differential_drive

I am confused to why I get this error as the very first thing I do in my launch file is load the param robot_description with the URDF file of the robot. I have looked and followed the documentation of the Jackal robot and the wiki page of the diff_drive_controller. I made sure the namespaces are correctly applied and even checked by yaml file. Below I will attach the YAML, launch and URDF files. I thought the solution would be to include a different plugin other than the gazebo_ros_control. Thank you for your help in advance and apologies if this error is on my behalf, I am still new to ROS. I am on Ubuntu 18.04 and ROS Melodic.

<launch>

<!-- Loads the URDF in the parameter server variable 'robot_description' -->
<param name="robot_description" command="cat $(find monsterborg_description)/urdf/monsterborg.urdf"/>


<!-- Include the file path for empty world, launches the services required for the urdf_spawner node below -->
<include file="$(find gazebo_ros)/launch/empty_world.launch"/>

<!-- Arguements for Gazebo --> 
<arg name="x" value="0.0"/>
<arg name="y" value="0.0"/>
<arg name="z" value="0.5"/>
<arg name="urdf_robot_file" value="$(find monsterborg_description)/urdf/monsterborg.urdf" />
<arg name="robot_name" value="monsterborg"/> 

<!-- Node to spawm the robot in Gazebo --> 
 <node name="urdf_spawner" pkg="gazebo_ros" type="spawn_model" respawn="false" output="screen"
args="-urdf -x $(arg x) -y $(arg y) -z $(arg z)  -model $(arg robot_name) -param robot_description"/>

<!-- Launch the robot_state_publisher to broadcast transforms to '/tf' --> 
<node name="robot_state_publisher" pkg="robot_state_publisher" type="robot_state_publisher" respawn='false' output="screen">
    <remap from="/joint_states" to="/monsterborg/joint_states" />
</node>

<!-- Load the joint controller configuration-->
<rosparam file='$(find monsterborg_description)/config/monsterborg_controllers.yaml' command='load'/> 


<!-- Load the controllers --> 
<node name="controller_spawner" pkg="controller_manager" type="spawner" respawn="false" output="screen" ns="/monsterborg"
      args="joint_state_controller differential_drive"/>

</launch>

monsterborg:
  joint_state_controller:
    type: joint_state_controller/JointStateController
    publish_rate: 50

  differential_drive:
    type: diff_drive_controller/DiffDriveController
    left_wheel: [base_to_lf_wheel, base_to_lb_wheel]
    right_wheel: [base_to_rf_wheel, base_to_rb_wheel]
    publish_rate: 50
    pose_covariance_diagonal: [0.001, 0.001, 1000000.0, 1000000.0, 1000000.0, 0.03]
    twist_covariance_diagonal: [0.001, 0.001, 0.001, 1000000.0, 1000000.0, 0.03]
    cmd_vel_timeout: 0.25
    base_frame_id: base_link
    wheel_seperation: 0.09
    wheel_radius: 0.0525
    linear:
      x:
        has_velocity_limits: true
        max_velocity: 2.0        # m/s
        has_acceleration_limits: true
        max_acceleration: 20.0   # m/s^2
    angular:
      z:
        has_velocity_limits: true
        max_velocity: 4.0        # rad/s
        has_acceleration_limits: true
        max_acceleration: 25.0   # rad/s^2

<robot name="monsterborg">

<link name="base_link">
    <visual> ...