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Currently, you're right, there's no way to tell move_base to switch planners once the node is up and running. Running two instances of move_base with different configurations in separate namespaces seems like a reasonable way to work around this limitation. In fact, I've done this in the past when I needed to do something similar.

Hope this helps.

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