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Reconfigurability in Automobiles—Structure, Manufacturing and Algorithm for Automobiles
  • Zheming Zhuang 1,   
  • Yuntao Guan 1,   
  • Shuangjia Xu 2, 4,   
  • Jian S. Dai 3, 4, *

Received: 09 Nov 2022 | Accepted: 10 Nov 2022 | Published: 18 Dec 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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