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This error indicates that the scanmatcher failed to find a plausible solution. Given that many people reported good results with the RPLidar I suspect the parameters you chose cause the lower performance. I haven't tried the RPLidar myself, but on a quick glance I'd set the map resolution to 0.05 (as opposed to 0.025) and try again.

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