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Take a look at the navigation stack. There is lots of information and tools to use to calculate robot position, generate maps, and navigate.

Also take a look at the robot_pose_ekf which fuses IMU data, odometry, and video odometry to calculate position.

In addition, viso2 is a good package to produce video odometry from your camera images.

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