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Real odometry suffers from drift as it doesn't use any feedback. Hector mapping actually aligns scans in the world and matches them against past observations, so it can greatly reduce the drift. Fusing both methods with an IMU thus will only be able to slightly correct the output, but not counter any drift.

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