Hello Eitan, I did check topics you have mentioned. Lately i found that when i launch nav stack at first time /initial_pose is not getting published in spite of sending x,y,a through parameters in amcl. I always have to click in rviz to set its pose and target. in short, i have to set initial pose and then set goal at least for the first time from rviz and then only from the next time stack takes goal from the code. Is there any way by which i can publish amcl pose properly at first instance to get pointcloud? so that i do not need to set goal from rviz for the first time. Any guidance on this would be appreciated. abhy. -- View this message in context: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/Move-base-fails-tp2369343p2411161.html Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.