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Qinjie Lin is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous navigation, human-robot interaction, and large-scale robotic system deployment. His research focuses on solving fundamental challenges in mobile robot localization, path planning, and collision-free navigation, with particular emphasis on integrating machine learning techniques into real-world robotic systems. Lin's most cited work, "Optimization of robot path planning parameters based on genetic algorithm" (10 citations), introduces a novel approach using genetic algorithms to optimize local path planning parameters for mobile robots, demonstrating how evolutionary computation can enhance autonomous navigation efficiency. His contributions to indoor mapping are evidenced by his work on implementing gmapping SLAM on embedded systems (6 citations), addressing the critical challenge of deploying simultaneous localization and mapping algorithms on resource-constrained platforms. Lin has also advanced human-centered robotics through his Markov games framework for collision-free navigation (4 citations), which reformulates robot navigation as a multi-agent problem to better handle dynamic human environments. More recently, he has pioneered systems for large-scale robotic experimentation with EMS® (3 citations) and DOS® (1 citation), cloud-enabled platforms that facilitate high-throughput computational robotics research and reliable deployment of data-driven robots across production and simulation environments.