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Thank you guys, I was missing that. Another way, beside the way you described, is to launch amcl with the parameters _initial_pose_x, _initial_cov_xx, etc. The available parameters are listed on AMCL's ros page.

But it is still not clear how GMAPPING finds out where the origin is to build the map. Does it consider the place where he beggan moving as the origin?

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