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ethzasl_icp_mapper might be worth a try if you can tilt your laser scanner and generate pointclouds using this approach. In principle, you should also be able to align Kinectpoint clouds but the "tidy environment" you're describing sounds like the potentially higher range, FOV and accuracy of a LIDAR would be helpful.

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