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Mumin Song is a robotics and automation researcher whose work has significantly advanced the field of intelligent manufacturing systems, with particular expertise in CAD-guided robot motion planning, automated trajectory generation, and computer vision for industrial applications. His most influential contributions center on developing automated systems for spray painting of free-form surfaces in automotive manufacturing — a notoriously complex challenge due to irregular surface geometries — with his foundational papers from 2002 and 2003 garnering 59 and 88 citations respectively, establishing him as a key figure in this specialized domain. Song's research elegantly bridges computational geometry, robotics, and manufacturing engineering. He pioneered CAD-guided frameworks for robot path planning, enabling automated dimensional inspection and measurement systems using vision sensors and robotic manipulators. His 2004 work on surface partitioning extended these principles to additive manufacturing processes including spray coating and rapid tooling. Beyond manufacturing automation, Song later expanded into intelligent service robotics, exploring machine learning techniques such as Support Vector Machines for fault diagnosis and designing smart home environments using wireless sensor networks. His body of work — spanning trajectory optimization, multi-sensor fusion, and real-time sensing-planning integration — reflects a sustained commitment to reducing human intervention in complex manufacturing and robotic tasks, making industrial automation more precise, efficient, and scalable.