%0 Conference Proceedings %T Optimal Design of Remote Center Compliance Devices of Rotational Symmetry %+ Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering (CAD Laboratory) %A Liu, Yang %A Wang, Michael, Yu %< avec comité de lecture %( IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology %B 7th International Precision Assembly Seminar (IPAS) %C Chamonix, France %Y Svetan Ratchev %I Springer %3 Precision Assembly Technologies and Systems %V AICT-435 %P 161-169 %8 2014-02-16 %D 2014 %R 10.1007/978-3-662-45586-9_20 %K Remote Center Compliance (RCC) %K rotational symmetry %K circular periodic structure %K structural optimization %Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers %X Remote Center Compliance (RCC) devices are passive devices used in automated assembly. For round peg-in-hole insertions, initial misalignments of the peg can cause heavy radial loadings on the corresponding hole in arbitrary direction. RCC devices with rotational symmetry property are therefore desirable. This paper discusses how such devices may be designed and shows that circular periodic structures satisfy this property. The elastic part of the RCC device is formulated as a compliant mechanism and a systematic design methodology is proposed based on structural optimization. A smooth optimal design is achieved with distributed compliance and numerical simulation is conducted to illustrate the feasibility. The proposed method is expected to be used to design a novel device for assembling fragile plastic parts, which is a challenge to 3C industry. %G English %Z TC 5 %Z WG 5.5 %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01260756/document %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01260756/file/978-3-662-45586-9_20_Chapter.pdf %L hal-01260756 %U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01260756 %~ IFIP %~ IFIP-AICT %~ IFIP-TC %~ IFIP-TC5 %~ IFIP-WG %~ IFIP-AICT-435 %~ IFIP-WG5-5