Reconfigurability in Automobiles—Structure, Manufacturing and Algorithm for Automobiles

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Review Reconfigurability in Automobiles—Structure, Manufacturing and Algorithm for Automobiles Zheming Zhuang 1, Yuntao Guan 1, Shuangjia Xu 2,4, and Jian S. Dai 3,4, * 1 Key Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of the Ministry of Education, Centre for Advanced Mechanisms and Robotics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China zhuangzheming@tju.edu.cn (Z.Z.); guanyuntao_018@tju.edu.cn (Y.G.) 2 DH Robotics Ltd, Shenzhen, China; Shuangjia.xu@dh-robotics.com 3 Institute for Robotics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China 4 Centre for Robotics Research, King’s College London, London, UK * Correspondence: jian.dai@kcl.ac.uk Received: 9 November 2022 Accepted: 10 November 2022 Published: 18 December 2022 Abstract: For the automobile design and manufacturing, as a typical representative of the industry, the development and upgrading represent the application of the state-of-the-art technology in the industry. With a period of development, the related technology of traditional manufacturing factories for automobiles are found with some common issues while improving. As such, the reconfigurable intelligent manufacturing factory of the automobiles is fast developed with focus on reconfigurability in structures, manufactures and algorithms, thus advancing the level of the reconfigurable intelligent manufacturing continuously. With a sufficient reconfigurable manufacturing technology as the basis, reconfigurability can be better introduced to the structure design and the driving algorithms of the automobiles. Reconfigurability provides a new bridge for transforming the traditional automobile to the reconfigurable automobile, and a new driving force for the upgrading of the reconfigurable driving algorithms.

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Current Progress in Automobile Design and Manufacturing

“…Automotive engineering exemplifies "big avenue," because it requires an integrated and effective pipeline executing from academia, industry, and regulatory agencies to identify, to evaluate, to develop, to approve new forms of material, energy utilization, and control system. In this context, we collate 10 inspiring and well-prepared articles to appraise valuable and timely information in key aspects of the current automobiles.Guan and Dai (FREng, IEEE Fellow, ASME Fellow, RSA Fellow, IMechE Fellow, King's College London) et al [1] denote that the reconfigurable intelligent manufacturing factory of automobiles is developing and focusing on reconfigurability in structure, manufacturing and algorithms, thus advancing the level of reconfigurable intelligent manufacturing continuously. With sufficient reconfigurable manufacturing technology as the basis, reconfigurability can be better introduced into the structure design and driving algorithm of automobiles.…”

“…Guan and Dai (FREng, IEEE Fellow, ASME Fellow, RSA Fellow, IMechE Fellow, King's College London) et al [1] denote that the reconfigurable intelligent manufacturing factory of automobiles is developing and focusing on reconfigurability in structure, manufacturing and algorithms, thus advancing the level of reconfigurable intelligent manufacturing continuously. With sufficient reconfigurable manufacturing technology as the basis, reconfigurability can be better introduced into the structure design and driving algorithm of automobiles.…”