Documentation and instruction for the tutorial: Finite Element Analysis-based soft robotic modeling: Simulating a soft-actuator in SOFA Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Soft robotics modeling is a research topic that is evolving fast. Many techniques are present in literature but most of them require analytical models with a lot of equations that are time consuming, hard to resolve and not so easy to handle. For this reason, the help of a soft mechanics simulator is essential in this field. This paper presents a tutorial on how to build a soft-robot model using an open-source Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulator, called SOFA. This software is able to generate a simulation scene from a code written in Python or XML, so it can be used by people ...