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Yuan Miao is a robotics researcher focused on developing specialized mobile robots for industrial maintenance and inspection. Their primary research areas include path planning algorithms, magnetic adsorption mechanisms, and wall-climbing robotic systems. Miao’s major contributions center on designing novel wheeled wall-climbing robots with permanent magnetic adsorption for hazardous environments, such as petrochemical storage tanks and ship hulls. Notably, they have engineered robots capable of both stable adhesion and obstacle crossing, addressing critical safety and efficiency challenges in derusting and maintenance operations. Their work on integrating improved particle swarm optimization for path planning aims to overcome limitations of traditional ant colony algorithms, enhancing robot navigation capabilities. While individual paper citations are modest (2–3 each), the collective body of work demonstrates sustained engagement with practical industrial robotics problems. Miao’s designs—spanning mechanical structure, control systems, and magnetic adsorption analysis—represent incremental but valuable contributions to the field of climbing robots, with potential applications in dangerous or hard-to-reach working environments.