For anyone having similar problems, I believe I've found the source of my troubles. The process I am using to get odometry is running at an average of 50 Hz, but there are times when the loop takes .3 to .4 seconds! I never saw it when running rostopic hz odom because I never ran it long enough for the bug to rear it's ugly head. Thanks for helping me track down the problem. Best, -Zac -- View this message in context: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/Costmap2DROS-timeouts-and-poor-amcl-performance-tp2112835p2122196.html Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.