The main resource that you can read in order to deepen your knowledge of SLAM is the official documentation of the ROS Navigation Stack, which is located at http://wiki.ros.org/navigation. For those of you who are interested, here are some additional references:
- ROS Navigation: Concepts and Tutorial, Federal University of Technology, Longhi R., Schneider A., Fabro J., Becker T., and Amilgar V. (2018), Parana, Curitiba, Brazil.
- Lidar design, use, and calibration concepts for correct environmental detection, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, M. D. Adams (2000) vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 753-761, Dec. 2000, doi: 10.1109/70.897786. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=897786&isnumber=19436.
- The LIDAR Odometry in the SLAM, V. Kirnos, V. Antipov, A. Priorov, and V. Kokovkina, 23rd Conference of Open Innovations Association (FRUCT...