SOFA America Workshop

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SOFA America Workshop on Soft-Robotics (SAW-SORO 2024)

For the first time, an official SOFA conference event is hosted in North America. The SOFA America Workshop aims at gathering the north-American community in soft-robotics.

 
Dates May 30-31 2024
Location Pavillon JA Bombardier (room J1035 and atrium) Polytechnique Montreal → More about the venue
Program Read the detailed program
 

The event is funded by the Samuel de Champlain program.

Organization Committee

  • Bodkhe, Sampada (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
  • Goury, Olivier (Inria, France)
  • Sedal, Audrey (McGill University, Canada)
  • Talbot, Hugo (Inria, France)

Posters and demos are listed below.

Research in robotics
Thur. 30th May 2024
Academia meets industry
Fri. 31st May 2024
9:00 am
Welcoming participants
9:15 am
Opening SAW 2024
9:30 am Morning Keynote – Paul Kry
Adaptive simulation methods for training, entertainment, and robotics		 Morning Keynote – Christian Duriez
Control of soft robots by real-time mechanical computation of their deformable structure
10:30 am
Break
Break
10:45 am Short Talks

  • Audrey Sedal – Sim-to-real for soft robots with reduced-order FEA
  • Sampada Bodkhe – AM of soft robots with smart material-based actuation
  • Poster session
  • Demo Session
11:00 am Industry Talks

  • Trevor Cotter – Development of a Real-Time Physics-Based Spinal Fusion Training Simulator for Lumbar Discectomy
  • Jessica Henry – From 2D to 3D interaction: the new age of touch enabled simulation
  • Eulalie Coevoet – Bringing deformation in robotics at Compliance Robotics
12:00 am
Lunch & Posters
Lunch, Posters & Demos
2:00 pm Afternoon Talks

  • Sheldon Andrews – Parallel Block Neo-Hookean XPBD with Graph Clustering
  • Amir Hooshiar – Embedded Sensing and Sensor-free Methods for Shape/Force Estimation for Soft Surgical Robots
 Afternoon Talks

  • Olivier Goury – Partitioned model-order reduction for fast and realistic simulation of soft organs with large local deformations
  • Jozsef Kovecses – Modelling and Simulation of Soft Bodies in Robotic Contact Tasks
3:00 pm
Break
Break
3:30 pm
  • Poster Session (atrium)
  • SOFA Basics (J1035)
  • Demo Session (atrium)
  • Poster Session (atrium)
  • SOFA for Soft-Robotics (J1035)
6:00 pm
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SAW 2024 closing
6:30 pm
Social event at McGill Faculty Club

List of posters (7)


Poster title Author
Sim-to-Real Transfer of Co-Optimized Soft Robot Crawlers Shiyao Ni
Monostable to multistable transition for reprogrammable energy dissipation and mechanical logic operations Lei Wu
Observability-Based Optimal Sensor Placement on a Cantilever Beam Samuel Smocot
Modeling, Embedded Control and Design of Soft Robots using a Learned Condensed FEM Model Tanguy Navez
Acoustic sensing in mobile robot wheels leveraging deformable waveguides Wilfred Mason
Granular Vibration-Induced Fluidizing Actuator David Brenken
Modelling of Sequential Inflation in Auxetic Soft Robots Frances McBride

List of demos (8)

Demo title Presenter
The new age of touch enabled simulation Colin Gallacher & Jessica Henry
Teach soft robotics with Emio Coevoet Eulalie
AM of soft robots with smart material-based actuation Sampada Bodkhe
Sim-to-Real Transfer of Co-Optimized Soft Robot Crawlers Shiyao Ni
Bistable hinge enabling robotic metamaterials to be either stiff or soft Lei Wu
Haptic interaction with soft bodies Siamak Arbatani
Programmable Response of a Soft Electromagnetic Actuator (SEMA) Mastroianni Michael-Anthony
Modelling and Simulation of Soft Bodies in Robotic Contact Tasks Siamak Arbatani

Prizes will be awarded for the two best conference presentations:

First Prize        –   600€
Monostable to multistable transition for reprogrammable energy dissipation and mechanical logic operations – Lei Wu
Second Prize        –   400€
Acoustic sensing in mobile robot wheels leveraging deformable waveguides – Wilfred Mason

The call for the SOFA awards is open until the 15th of May 2024.

The workshop will take place in the Pavillon JA Bombardier at Polytechnique Montreal. Two rooms will be used:

  • Room J1035: main conference room
  • Atrium: for lunches, demos & posters

The easiest way is to follow the signs for Polytechnique Montreal from the UdeM metro station. Then you will arrive at the bottom of the Lassonde building. You then need to climb all the way to the top and turn right when you arrive in front of the main building (Pavillon Principal).

GoogleMap location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Fah7TWf16Z9UpYfP9

Below a plan to ease your venue:

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