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ROS navigation usually uses AMCL to track and publish the location of the robot, in combination with the robot's odometry.

AMCL usually publishes the position of the robot as a TF transform from the /map frame to the /base_link frame.

ROS navigation usually uses AMCL to track and publish the location of the robot, in combination with the robot's odometry.

AMCL usually publishes the position of the robot as a TF transform from the /map frame to the /base_link frame.

To understand how rviz interacts with the navigation stack, take a look at http://wiki.ros.org/navigation/Tutorials/Using%20rviz%20with%20the%20Navigation%20Stack

You can also use the rostopic, rosnode and rqt_graph tools to introspect a running system, to see which topics exist and how they're connected.