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However, large structures in different environments are very likely to appear repeatedly in several consecutive time steps, resulting in redundant features in the final map. These redundant features should be properly fused, in order to avoid ambiguity and reduce the computation load. In this paper, three criteria are proposed to evaluate the closeness between any two features extracted at two different times, in terms of their included angle, feature circle overlapping and relative distance. These criteria determine whether any two features should be fused in the mapping process. Using the three criteria, all features in the global map are categorized into different clusters with distinct labels, and a fused feature is then generated for each cluster by means of least squares fitting. Two competing methods are employed for comparative verification. 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