Hello Eitan, Sorry for the late reply on this. So, far i am still testing with the move_base and initial pose. According to your pose, it is clear that we have to publish an initial pose of the robot to make it localize. But, It wont be easy in our case to set a position from rviz since we have created an interface (Custom) to control the robot remotely written in java. so, i found a package ar_pose which i managed to test it properly. Here my approach is, to fixed the pattern on ceiling and x,y,z of it accordingly and let the robot camera identify its initial pose comparing distance. publish it through on initial topic. This i tested and I could able to do get reference x,y,z of robot but i am still not getting point cloud in rviz. I just wanted to know if this approach is fine and why it is still not publishing point cloud in first launch when initial pose topic is being published propely. -Abhy -- View this message in context: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/Move-base-fails-tp2369343p2440479.html Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.