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I don't know what a Velodyne is, but I know you can't hope to use just the IMU unless it's a VERY precise one. For a more indepth discussion of this problem see my answer here.

You could try to augment the IMU by using a Kalman with both the IMU data and the odometry data.

And you could also give the Velodyne stack a try.

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