Aerospace Controls Laboratory

Yixuan (Lucas) Jia


Alum

yixuany [at] mit [dot] edu
31-234B

Education

  • M.S. in Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT, 2025
  • B.S. in Computer Engineering & Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023

Research Interests

  • Planning and Control

Projects

Off-Road Navigation via Implicit Neural Representation of Terrain Traversability
Yixuan (Lucas) Jia, Andy Li, 2026

Leverage implicit representation for gradient-based trajectory optimization that modulates path geometry and speed profile simultaneously.

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.