Reconfigurability in Automobiles—Structure, Manufacturing and Algorithm for Automobiles

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.