Richie Ryulie Suganda

NAIL Lab, University of Houston

122 ENGR4 (SAB2)

14000 University Blvd

Sugar Land, TX 77479

Richie R. Suganda is a 3rd year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, working in the NAIL Lab (Networked Autonomous & Intelligent Systems Laboratory) under Dr. Bin Hu.

His research focuses on safe and intelligent autonomous systems, with interests spanning multi-robot coordination, control barrier functions, perception-aware planning, and embedded AI. He bridges theory and real-world deployment, developing algorithms for safety-critical robot control, autonomous navigation, and efficient machine learning on resource-constrained platforms.

He is passionate about building systems that are not only intelligent, but also reliable, scalable, and practical for real-world applications.

📍 Cullen College of Engineering · University of Houston

News

2026

May 20, 2026	📄 New preprint: Distributed 3D Leader-Follower Formation Control with Field-of-View Safety via Control Barrier Functions with Immanuel R. Santjoko, Miao Pan, and Bin Hu is now on arXiv.
May 20, 2026	📄 New preprint: XiYOLO: Energy-Aware Object Detection via Iterative Architecture Search and Scaling with Tony Tran and Bin Hu is now on arXiv.
Mar 15, 2026	📄 New preprint: Formation-Aware Adaptive Conformalized Perception for Safe Leader-Follower Multi-Robot Systems with Bin Hu is now on arXiv.
Jan 15, 2026	📄 A High-Fidelity 3D Simulation Environment for Multi-Aircraft Operations with Timothy Bautista, Fengyu Wang, and colleagues accepted at AIAA SCITECH 2026.

2025

May 19, 2025	🛸 Toward Embedded LLM-Guided Navigation and Object Detection for Aerial Robots with Bin Hu presented at ICRA 2025 Late Breaking Session.
May 19, 2025	🤖 Distributed Perception Aware Safe Leader Follower System via Control Barrier Methods with Tony Tran, Miao Pan, Lei Fan, Qin Lin, and Bin Hu presented at IEEE ICRA 2025.

2024

Oct 15, 2024	📄 Modeling and Output Feedback Control Design of a CoreXY System with Tua A. Tamba presented at IEEE FORTEI-ICEE 2024.

Selected Publications

ICRA

Distributed Perception Aware Safe Leader Follower System via Control Barrier Methods

Richie R. Suganda, Tony Tran, Miao Pan, and 3 more authors

In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

arXiv Bib PDF Video Website

@inproceedings{suganda2025distributed,
  title = {Distributed Perception Aware Safe Leader Follower System via Control Barrier Methods},
  author = {Suganda, Richie R. and Tran, Tony and Pan, Miao and Fan, Lei and Lin, Qin and Hu, Bin},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages = {7794--7800},
  year = {2025},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

ICRA

Toward Embedded LLM-Guided Navigation and Object Detection for Aerial Robots

Richie R. Suganda and Bin Hu

In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) – Late Breaking Session, 2025

Bib Video Poster

@inproceedings{suganda2025llm,
  title = {Toward Embedded LLM-Guided Navigation and Object Detection for Aerial Robots},
  author = {Suganda, Richie R. and Hu, Bin},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) -- Late Breaking Session},
  year = {2025},
  address = {Atlanta, USA},
}

arXiv

Formation-Aware Adaptive Conformalized Perception for Safe Leader-Follower Multi-Robot Systems

Richie R. Suganda and Bin Hu

arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08958, 2026

arXiv Bib PDF

@article{suganda2026formation,
  title = {Formation-Aware Adaptive Conformalized Perception for Safe Leader-Follower Multi-Robot Systems},
  author = {Suganda, Richie R. and Hu, Bin},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08958},
  year = {2026},
}

arXiv

XiYOLO: Energy-Aware Object Detection via Iterative Architecture Search and Scaling

Tony Tran, Richie R. Suganda, and Bin Hu

arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.06927, 2026

arXiv Bib PDF

@article{tran2026xiyolo,
  title = {XiYOLO: Energy-Aware Object Detection via Iterative Architecture Search and Scaling},
  author = {Tran, Tony and Suganda, Richie R. and Hu, Bin},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.06927},
  year = {2026},
}

arXiv

Distributed 3D Leader-Follower Formation Control with Field-of-View Safety via Control Barrier Functions

Immanuel R. Santjoko, Richie R. Suganda, Miao Pan, and 1 more author

arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.17533, 2026

arXiv Bib PDF

@article{santjoko2026distributed,
  title = {Distributed 3D Leader-Follower Formation Control with Field-of-View Safety via Control Barrier Functions},
  author = {Santjoko, Immanuel R. and Suganda, Richie R. and Pan, Miao and Hu, Bin},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.17533},
  year = {2026},
}