What a start for 2021: 6 papers in main robotic conferences accepted and a nice reference of SOFA in a review of physics simulators for robotic applications

Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)

Coupling numerical deformable models in global and reduced coordinates for the simulation of the direct and the inverse kinematics of Soft Robots, by Y. Adagolodjo et al.
Real-Time Simulation For Control Of Soft Robots With Self-Collisions Using Model Order Reduction For Contact Forces, by O. Goury et al.
Data-Driven Intra-Operative Estimation of Anatomical Attachments for Autonomous Tissue Dissection, by E. Tagliabue et al.

Robosoft 2021

Enabling the control of a new degree of freedom by using anisotropic material on a 6-DOF parallel soft robot, by F. Vanneste et al.

Automation in Medical Engineering (AutoMed 2021)

Robotic needle steering in deformable tissues with extreme learning machines, by P. Perrusi et al.

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Shared control strategy for needle insertion into deformable tissue using inverse Finite Element simulation, by P. Baksic et al.