On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:11 AM, safdar_zaman wrote: > then I want to see the pose and run > rostopic echo /amcl_pose  then it prints nothing. while rostopic echo /odom > gives me odometry data successfully . Is the robot moving? The /amcl_pose data is published only on filter updates, which occur each time the robot has moved a sufficient distance. The /tf data is published continuously; this is where most programs look for the pose estimates produced by amcl. To see it, try tf_echo: $ rosrun tf tf_echo map odom brian.