Aerospace Controls Laboratory

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masonbp [at] mit [dot] edu

Education

• M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, MIT, 2024
• B.S. in Computer Engineering, BYU, 2022
• Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, MIT, 2024 - current

Research Interests

• Semantic Mapping
• Multi-Robot Localization
• View-Invariant Loop Closure
• Multiple Object Tracking
• Global Data Association
• Flight Controls

Projects

Distribution Estimation for Global Data Association via Approximate Bayesian Inference
Yixuan (Lucas) Jia, Mason Peterson, Andy Li, 2026

Leverage approximate Bayesian inference to estimate the distribution of potential loop closures.

Open-Set Object Mapping and Loop Closures
Mason Peterson, Yulun Tian, Yixuan (Lucas) Jia, 2025

This project presents an outdoor global localization method based on robust registration of open-set segment maps.