Artificial intelligence and advanced materials in automotive industry: Potential applications and perspectives

The first part of this paper presents a literature review-based study of the most emerging technology of the century, artificial intelligence (AI) and its various applications in the automobile sector. In this era of the fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), industries have become all the more sophisticated owing to the intelligent technologies employed to maximize production, quality, and profits; and minimize wastage, time and cost of production. This paper studies various aspects of AI and related tools and techniques and aims to employ them in the automobile industry to make modern vehicles smart, safe and reliable. Simultaneously, it strives to automate the drives, thereby reducing manual labor, increasing efficiency and relieving humans of performing mundane, repetitive tasks. This paper explores different areas of the automotive industry like the vehicle itself, the designing and manufacturing sectors, the after-sales services. It provides solutions to make each of them ‘Intelligent’. The second part briefs us about advanced materials like polymer composites, carbon fiber, and high-strength steel. It discusses the various factors that make these intelligent materials feasible in the automobile industry and discusses the methods and areas of applications of these advanced materials in the automobile industry.