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by hellllllllooo 2641 days ago
It's using ICP to register sucessive lidar scans. All three lidars are calibrated so the relative positions are known and the data from all three can be combined.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_closest_point

This alone isn't SLAM but can be used for odometry as part of a SLAM system.

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... which is not surprising they can register in near real time. ICP is not that expensive.