Thanks alot. The dynamics reconfigure is working fine now. There is no programming error in the program. But It seemed that the move_base required the costmap to be loaded first before the trajectory planner can be initialized. With thanks, Zhiping -- View this message in context: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/Problem-with-dynamic-reconfigure-tp2300121p2449210.html Sent from the ROS-Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.