BENCHMARKING LIDAR SLAM ON LIVOX MID-360 DATASETS

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This open-source repository presents a comparative benchmark evaluating four popular LiDAR odometry and SLAM algorithms—KISS-ICP, DLIO, FAST-LIO2, and GLIM—on live aerial drone flight data collected with a Livox Mid-360 LiDAR and Pixhawk flight controller. Running directly on a Jetson Orin NX embedded computing platform, the project compares trajectory accuracy and map reconstruction quality against millimeter-grade VICON ground-truth data. These empirical findings provide developers and perception engineers with actionable performance data to choose and tune state estimation algorithms for compute-constrained autonomous platforms.