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The easiest ways to do this is to use the <group> tag in a roslaunch XML. You can find that documentation here. Essentially, it would just launch each "system" (aka group of nodes) under a unique namespace. Thus, each robot would operate with its own set of parameters, and your launch file is actually quite simple.

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