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See also this previous Q/A (you'll likely find some others, too). I know of no existing ready-to-use solution so far. You can of course hack something by fusing two scans into one, but depending on LIDAR locations this could introduce distortions the data. The other option is diving into gmapping's code and adding true multi lidar support.

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