Analysis of emerging concepts focusing on robotised Electric Vehicle Battery (EVB) disassembly. Gaps and challenges of robotised disassembly are reviewed, and future perspectives are presented. Human–robot collaboration in EVB processing is highlighted. The potential of artificial intelligence in improving disassembly automation is discussed.
The analysis highlights that a complete automatic disassembly remains difficult, while human-robot collaborative disassembly guarantees high flexibility and productivity. The paper introduces guidelines for designing a robotic cell to disassemble a battery pack with the support of an operator.
Design for disassembly to support circularity of EVB at their End-of-Life (EoL). This review examines the robotic disassembly of electric vehicle batteries, a critical concern as the adoption of electric vehicles increases worldwide.
Battery pack disassembly is a part of this field of applications as a practical approach to preserving operators’ safety and health by coping with the high variability of products [38, 64]. However, most authors agree that a fully automatic battery pack disassembly is not feasible with the current constraints [17, 21, 37, 41, 56].
The design of the disassembly system must consider the analysis of potentially explosive atmospheres (ATEX) 1 of the area around the battery pack and, if necessary, adopt tools enabled to work in the corresponding ATEX zone.
However, the current lack of standardisation in design remains a significant barrier to automating battery disassembly . Additionally, the uncertain conditions of end-of-life or damaged EVBs add to the complexity of executing the disassembly process effectively.