Hi Eitan, Changing the publish_frequency helped. I changed it from 0 to 5 and now I can see the robot footprint. I then estimate the initialpose as demonstrated in the rviz/navigation stack tutorial, but the Pose Array does not form. Sometimes it forms for a second and it is gone again. Regarding amcl, I can see that it is subscribing to both /scan and /tf. When you suggest getting localization up and running, do you mean just running, the 'Laser, TF and odometry' nodes, the amcl node and the map node, and then moving the robot via joystick? Or is there a separate tutorial for localization? If so, I am unable to find it. Thanks again, Shanker -- View this message in context: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/Navigation-stack-Error-Aborting-because-a-valid-plan-could-not-be-found-tp1956004p1996700.html Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.