The SOFA Week is designed to gather the entire SOFA community, to present technological and scientific advances, while fostering the networking within the community. Already two successful editions in 2018 and 2019, get ready for 2020!
Save the date: 23-27 November — a 2020 edition 100% online!
Open Registration
23rd Nov 2020: Training session
To start the SOFA week, a training session will take place to provide new users (and any interested participant) an efficient introduction to SOFA. The training focuses on the SOFA main principles, the community, theoretical backgrounds on physics simulation, hands-on user and developer tutorials.
24th Nov 2020: International SOFA Symposium (free)
The symposium focuses on research and scientific achievements based on SOFA. This symposium allows international researchers from the SOFA community to present their scientific work, their plugins and propose live demonstrations. It is also the annual meeting where companies using SOFA can demonstrate their latest products. Finally, it is the opportunity to meet the community and create strong collaborations.
25-27th Nov 2020: Technical committee (free)
This committee focuses on technical discussions on current and future developments in SOFA. With developers of the community and SOFA Technical Members, the technical roadmap for the next release is jointly designed. It is also a unique opportunity to meet the developer community and code all together.
Day: 23rd November 2020
Location: Online
Level: Beginner – Medium (max 8 participants)
Registration costs
- early bird: 500€ excl.tax. (before the 19th October 2020)
- regular fare: 700€ excl. tax.
This training session aims at providing a wide introduction to SOFA and its community while ensuring the mathematical, physical and computer science backgrounds in order to start in the best conditions with SOFA.
Agenda
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Overview of SOFA and its community |
| 10:00 am -10:30 am | Coffee – for a good start! |
| 10:30 am – 11 am | Examples of applications with SOFA |
| 11:00 am – noon | User Tutorial |
| noon – 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Understand physics with SOFA: from the math to the code |
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Coffee break |
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Developer Tutorial |
Day: 24th November 2020
Location: Online
Researchers and companies from the SOFA community join the Symposium in order to share ideas, experiences and to present their on-going research or products based on SOFA. Several sessions of presentations will be organized regarding various simulation topics and application fields. Booths will also be made available for technology demonstrations. This international event is an exciting opportunity, fostering discussions and new collaborations!
Call for presentations and demos
To present your work at the SOFA Symposium, only two steps are required:
- Submit your abtract on the EasyChair portal
- Register to the event using the dedicated form
Program (following the Central European Time)
| 9:00 am | Online welcoming | ||
| 9:15 am | Introduction: SOFA Week 2020 | ||
design, inverse kinematics and beyond |
9:30 am | Toward simulation and design optimization of underwater anguilliform movement: case of eel-like robot | Nguyen, Pho Van |
| 9:45 am | Coupling numerical deformable models in global and reduced coordinates for the simulation of the direct and inverse kinematics of soft-robots | Adagolodjo, Yinoussa | |
| 10:00 am | A model-based sensor fusion approach for force and shape estimation in soft robotics | Navarro, Stefan | |
| 10:15 am | |||
for simulation |
10:30 am | Caribou : a modular library for continuum mechanics | Brunet, Jean-Nicolas |
| 10:45 am | Matrix assembly in SOFA: latest results and usage | Zeng, Ziqiu | |
| 11:00 am | SofaGym: An OpenAI Gym API for SOFA Simulations | Etienne Ménager | |
| 11:15 am | |||
for training |
11:45 am | Presentation of the InSimo company | Allard, Jérémie |
| 12:00 am | Initial experience of SOFA in simulators for arthroscopic surgery and vascular intervention | Choi, Jaeson | |
| 12:15 pm | Simulation future in SiMedix | Behnam, Binesh | |
| 12:30 am | |||
| 1:15 pm | SOFA international community & presentation of the SOFA Awards | ||
and interactions |
1:30 pm | A simulation platform for early haptic training in surgical and medical education | Bouchigny, Sylvain |
| 1:45 pm | Highlighting SOFA through Unity3D: cutting, carving and haptic rendering in VR | Pernod, Erik | |
| 2:00 pm | Presentation of the Follou company: the Haptic Avatar | Olsson, Fredrik | |
| 2:15 pm | |||
new models and approaches |
2:30 pm | Implementing dynamic active constraints for safe remote robotic surgery using SOFA | De I. Reyzabal, Mikel |
| 2:45 pm | Real-time simulation and control of soft robots with self-collisions using model order reduction for contact forces | Goury, Olivier | |
| 3:00 pm | A new simulation framework for soft magnetic tools in medical applications | Boehler, Quentin | |
| 3:15 pm | |||
towards autonomous procedures |
3:30 pm | Learning anatomical attachments from simulated data | Tagliabue, Eleonora |
| 3:45 pm | Stent expansion simulation and experimental validation | Krewcun, Camille | |
| 4:00 pm | |||
| 4:15 pm | Deformation aware augmented reality for brain surgery | Haouchine, Nazim | |
| 4:30 pm | Multilevel autonomy human-machine interface in intraluminal robotic surgery | Finocchiaro, Martina | |
| 4:45 pm | Shared control strategy for percutaneous procedures using inverse simulation | Baksic, Paul | |
| 5:00 pm | Award Ceremony 2020 | ||
| 5:15 pm | Futures developments in SOFA: introduction of the STC#10 | ||
| 5:30 pm | Closing of the Symposium | ||
— Program Committee
- Alexandre Bilger (Symgery)
- Nazim Haouchine (SPL, Harvard)
- Damien Marchal (CNRS)
- Hugo Talbot (SOFA consortium)
— Organizing committee
- Hugo Talbot
- Guillaume Paran
2020 edition
2019 edition
Day: 25-27th November 2020
Location: Online
Level: Medium – Advanced
The week will close with the 10th SOFA Technical Committee. This technical committee governs and takes all technical decisions for the roadmap towards upcoming releases. It is open and free to all!
Program
| Day 1 | Wednesday 25th November |
|---|---|
| 9:00 am | Online welcoming |
| 9:15 am – 9:30 am | Consortium news |
| 9:30 am – 12:30 am |
Last 6 months activity Roundtable
Review v20.12 Roadmap
|
| 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Next 6 months activity Roundtable
Define v21.06 Roadmap
|
| 5:00 pm | End of Day 1 |
| Day 2 | Thursday 26th November |
|---|---|
| 9:30 am – noon | Coding sprint and technical discussions See tasks on GitHub |
| noon – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Coding sprint and technical discussions |
| 5:00 pm | End of Day 2 |
| Day 3 | Friday 27th November |
|---|---|
| 9:30 am – noon | Coding sprint and technical discussions See tasks on GitHub |
| noon – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Coding sprint and technical discussions |
| 5:00 pm | Closing STC#10 |
This year again, the SOFA consortium has the pleasure to organize the Open-Source SOFA Awards!
All contributions are eligible for application: it can be an open-source plugin, a pull-request on GitHub, a video, a tutorial or documentation pages! Two award categories are open for competition:
| Organizers’ Prize Prize: 600€ |
Public Prize Prize: 400€ |
|---|
The call for the SOFA awards is open until the 16th of November 2020. Any contribution – as long it is open – will be rewarded at the SOFA Week 2020. Winners will be announced during the Symposium on 24th November.
Candidates
| runSofa2 | Marques, Bruno | A much needed new graphical interface for interactive modeling and execution of SOFA |
| Cosserat model | Adagolodjo, Yinoussa | Cosserat model has been introduced in continuum robotics to simulate the deformation the robot body whose geometry and mechanical characteristics are similar to a rod. By extension, this model can be used to simulate needles and sutures or wires. This model can be used to model and control concentric tube robots, continuum robots actuated with cables, or pneumatic soft robots with a constant cross-section. |
| Soft-rigid interaction tutorial | Tagliabue, Eleonora | Simulations involving colliding objects are among the most difficult to set-up, and understanding the options available within SOFA is not straightforward, especially if you are taking your first steps with the framework. Probe-tissue-interaction provides reference simulations for modelling the interaction between a rigid and a soft object. The repository contains simulation scenes modelling the same exact scenario (1) using penalty forces, (2) using constraints and (3) prescribing surface displacement. Additional How-To for setting up scenes and tips are provided! |
| Sofa RHI | Roy, Frédérick | Rendering Hardware Interface API for SOFA. Render your simulation using either OpenGL ES, Direct3D 11, Metal or Vulkan with SOFA. |
| Geomagic plugin improvements | Pernod, Erik | A set of PR have been made this year to improve the handling of Geomagic device, fix various bad behaviors and allow multiple device handling (#1366 , #1378, #1435, #1438, #1533). Some work has also been done to add tests on LCPForceFeedBack component (#1576, #1581). |
| Plastic beam element | Krewcun, Camille | An extension to the BeamFEMForceField component, which implements a plastic mechanical behavior. This allows to model materials which are able to undergo permanent deformation such as metals. The underlying mechanical computation is based on a Von Mises-Hill plasticity model, and the nonlinear mechanics are solved with a radial return algorithm. This component was originally developed to simulate coronary stent deployment. |
Industry
| Aichele, Fabian | Software engineer – Zykl.io, Germany | Robotics |
| Allard, Jérémie | CTO – InSimo, France | Medical simulation |
| Auvert, Marine | Project leader – Conectus, France | Technology transfer |
| Behnam, Binesh | Technical manager – Simedix, Iran | Medical simulation |
| Bessard, Rémi | Engineer – IHU/Inria, France | Medical simulation |
| Bianco, Rohan-Jean | Co-Founder – Philomec Inc., France | Mechanical simulation |
| Bonnet, Arnaud | Engineer – Altran, Deutschland | Consulting |
| Bilger, Alexandre | Engineer – Symgery, Canada | Medical simulation |
| Dara, Shayda | Software architect – LossOfGenerality, Ireland | Computational classnotes |
| Fontaine, Olivier | COO – VirtualiSurg, France | Medical simulation |
| Forest, Clément | Research lead – CAE, Canada | Medical simulation |
| Gaind, Shromm | Independent developer, Australia | Medical simulation |
| Hamze, Noura | Research engineer – MED-EL, Austria | Medical manufacturer |
| Harel, Amnon | System architect – Simbionix, Israel | Medical simulation |
| Jourdes, François | Research lead – InSimo, France | Medical simulation |
| Kowalski, Marcin | Business Developer – Ready4S, France | Dev, consulting |
| Laan, Dick | R&D project leader – VanDeVelde, Belgium | Cloth design |
| Lenoir, Julien | Senior Developer – SenseGraphics, Sweden | Medical simulation |
| Louis, Jacques | CEO – Innovations Sans Frontieres, France | Management consulting |
| McGraw, Samuel | Engineer – Cayuse Technologies, USA | Small business administration |
| Montoya Muñoz, Angela M. | Engineer – Studa, Colombia | Medical device |
| Mourglia, Charly | Engineer – DigiNext, USA | Small business administration |
| Nesme, Matthieu | CTO – Anatoscope, France | Patient-specific anatomy |
| Ni, Cheng | Engineer – Belimed AG, Switzerland | Medical devices |
| Olsson, Fredrik | CEO – Follou, Sweden | Haptic interfaces |
| Olsson, Jenny | Engineer – Follou, Sweden | Haptic interfaces |
| Pernod, Erik | CEO – InfinyTech3D, France | VR, Physics simulation |
| Spadoni, Federico | Engineer – IndieDev, France | Physics simulation |
| Shokouhfar, Shahram | Engineer – Symgery, Canada | Medical simulation |
| Song, Yuyang | Tech leader – Toyota, USA | Soft-robotics |
| Tournier, Maxime | Dev leader – Anatoscope, France | Patient-specific anatomy |
| Velásquez, Jhon J. | CEO – Studa, Colombia | Medical device |
Research
| Adagolodjo, Yinoussa | Postdoc – Inria Lille, France | Soft-robotics |
| Ali, Ahmad | Researcher – Queen Mary University of London, UK | Control and Mechanics |
| Aliyari, Dina | Master Student – Tehran University London, Iran | Medical simulation |
| Arikan, Kaan | PhD Student – University of Western Ontario, Canada | Biomechanics |
| Arico, Mario | Researcher – Sorbonne University, France | Robotics |
| Badie, Saad | Master Student – Al-Nahrain University, Iraq | Physics simulation |
| Baksic, Paul | PhD Student – University of Strasbourg, France | Medical robotics |
| Ben-Ahmed, Sabrina | MD, PhD – Mines / CHU Saint-Etienne, France | Vascular surgeon |
| Boehler, Quentin | Senior researcher – ETH Zurich, Switzerland | EM, soft-robotics |
| Bouchigny, Sylvain | Researcher – CEA LIST, France | Haptic interface |
| Bounik, Zahra | PhD Student – Sahand Univ. of Technology, Iran | Physics simulation |
| Brunet, Jean-Nicolas | Engineer – Inria Strasbourg, France | FEM, Physics simulation |
| Cakmak, Kaan | Student – Mugla Sıtkı Kocman University, Turkey | Simulation |
| Carrez, Bruno | Engineer – Inria Lille, France | Architecture, C++ |
| Chapuis, Maxime | PhD Student – LIRMM, France | Medical simulation |
| Chellali, Amine | Researcher – Univeristé d’Evry, France | VR, electrophysiology |
| Ching Ting, Chang | PhD Student – Cardiff University, UK | Medical simulation |
| Choi, Jaeson | Professor – Asan Medical Center, South Korea | Medical simulation |
| Choi, Ju-Eun | Student – University of Ulsan, South Korea | Medical simulation |
| Civilla, Lorenzo | Master Student – Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Medical robotics |
| Coevoet, Eulalie | Engineer – University of Naples Federico II, Italy | Soft-robotics |
| Cotin, Stéphane | Research Director – Inria Strasbourg, France | Medical simulation |
| Courtecuisse, Hadrien | Researcher – ICube CNRS, France | Simulation, robotics |
| David, Vivek C. | Student – IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India | Computer sciences |
| Davila, Mariel | PhD Student – UAEM, Mexico | Soft-robotics |
| Deimel, Raphael | PostDoc – Vienna UT, Austria | Soft-robotics |
| De I. Reyzabal, Mikel | PhD Student – King’s College London, UK | Soft-robotics |
| Deshpande, Saurabh | PhD Student – University Luxembourg, Luxembourg | Medical simulation |
| Desrues, Gaetan | PhD Student – Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France | Electrophysiology simulation |
| Deutsch, Ari | Student – Monash University, USA | Mechatronics |
| Devin, Kirstie | PhD Student – University of Southampton, UK | FEA, Biomechanics |
| Diaz León, Christian A | Research Director – EAFIT, Colombia | Medical simulation |
| Dresp, Birgitta | Research Director – University of Strasbourg, France | Vision, perception |
| Dreyfus, Roland | PhD Student – ETH Zurich, Switzerland | EM, soft-robotics |
| Ducrocq, Julien | PhD Student – UPJV, France | Soft-robotics |
| Duprez, Michel | Researcher – Inria Strasbourg, France | Applied mathematics |
| Duriez, Christian | Research Director – Inria Lille, France | Soft-robotics |
| Ergun, Serkan | PhD Student – Klagenfurt University, Austria | Soft-robotics |
| Escaida, Stefan | Postdoc – Inria Lille, France | Soft-robotics |
| Faller, Lisa-Marie | Professor – Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria | Sensors, robotics |
| Ferrentino, Pasquale | PhD Student – Vrije Universiteit of Brussels, Belgium | Soft-robotics |
| Finocchiaro, Martina | PhD Student – Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain | Medical simulation |
| Fogarollo, Stefano | PhD Student – Innsbruck University, Austria | Soft-robotics |
| Forouhar, Moein | Researcher – FEL Prague University, Czech Rep. | Soft-robotics |
| Frisken, Sarah | Assistant Professor – Harvard Med. BWH, USA | Image-guided neurosurgery |
| Gao, Ruilang | Engineer – University Florida, USA | Medical simulation |
| Gaugry, Thierry | Engineer – INSA Rennes, France | UI, Python |
| Goury, Olivier | Researcher – Inria Lille, France | Soft-robotics |
| Haferssas, Ryadh | Postdoc – Inria Strasbourg, France | Linear algebra |
| Haouchine, Nazim | Postdoc – SPL – Harvard Medical School – BWH, USA | Vision, simulation |
| Hernansanz, Albert | PhD Student – Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain | Medical simulation |
| Hockings, Nick | Researcher – CSIRO, Australia | SPH modeling, GPU |
| Hussien, Haitham | Senior Research Fellow – University of Salford, UK | Soft-robotics |
| Ibrahim, Khaled | Researcher – FH Kaernten, Austria | Control systems |
| Ince, Ozgur | Researcher – Okan University, Turkey | Healthcare management |
| Jaillet, Fabrice | Researcher – Université Lyon 1 / LIRIS, France | Medical simulation |
| Jia, Fucang | Professor – Shenzhen IAT, China | Computer-aided intervention |
| Kaan, Arikan | PhD Student – University of Waterloo, Canada | Mechanics |
| King, Jonathan | PhD Student – Carnegie Mellon University, USA | Robotics |
| Krewcun, Camille | PhD Student – University Clermont Auvergne, France | Medical simulation |
| Kyosev, Yordan | Professor – TU Dresden, Germany | Soft-robotics |
| Laurent, Guillaume | Researcher – FEMTO-ST, France | Soft-robotics |
| Lecomte, François | PhD Student – Inria Strasbourg, France | IA, simulation |
| Lee, EunHye | Student – Asan Medical Center, South Korea | Medical simulation |
| Leveziel, Maxence | PhD Student – Femto-ST, France | Soft-robotics |
| Li, Shijie | PhD Student – Université Polytechnique HdF, France | Soft-robotics |
| Liu, Jun | Researcher – IHPC, A*STAR, Singapore | Soft body mechanics |
| MacKeith, Arthur | Research Assistant – TTIC, USA | Soft-robotics |
| Marchal, Damien | Lead Engineer – CNRS, France | UI, Python, Robotics |
| Marchal, Maud | Researcher – INSA Rennes/IRISA, France | Simulation, interaction |
| Marques, Bruno | Engineer – Inria Lille, France | Python, UI |
| Martinez, Roque | Student – CSU Chico, USA | Medical simulation |
| Marzi, Christian | PhD Student – KIT, Germany | Medical simulation |
| Mazier, Arnaud | PhD Student – University Luxembourg, Luxembourg | Physics simulation |
| Mele, Christian | Master Student – University of Waterloo, Canada | Biomechanics |
| Ménager, Etienne | PhD Student – Inria Lille, France | Soft-robotics |
| Mendizabal, Andrea | PhD Student – Inria Strasbourg, France | IA, simulation |
| Mestdagh, Guillaume | PhD Student – Inria Strasbourg, France | Numerical methods |
| Morvan, Micks | PhD Student – EPHE – Inserm, France | Immunology simulation |
| Nardi, Agnese | Engineer – Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Biomedical engineering |
| Nguyen, Nhan | PhD Student – JAIST, Japan | Soft-robotics |
| Nguyen, Van Pho | PhD Student – JAIST, Japan | Soft-robotics |
| Nikolaev, Sergei | PhD Student – Inria Strasbourg, France | Optimization, simulation |
| Odot, Alban | PhD Student – Inria Strasbourg, France | IA, simulation |
| Parra, Andres | PhD Student – Universidad Politénica Madrid, Spain | Robotics |
| Palumbo, Maria Chiara | PhD Student – Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Robotics simulation |
| Péan, Fabien | PhD Student – ETH Zurich, Switzerland | Medical simulation |
| Peng, Yu | PhD Student – Beihang University, China | Medical simulation |
| Pery, Emilie | Researcher – University Clermont Auvergne, France | Biomedical optics |
| Peters, Jorg | Researcher – University Florida, USA | Medical simulation |
| Poliakov, Vladimir | PhD Student – KU Leuven, Belgium | Robotics |
| Pore, Amey | PhD Student – University of Verona, Italy | Robotics |
| Pozzoli, Alessio | Engineer – Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Optics, lasers |
| Pusch, Tim | Engineer – Fraunhofer IPA, Germany | IA, simulation |
| Rakhmetova, Evelina | PhD Student – University of Verona, Italy | Medical robotics |
| Ricca, Aylen | PhD Student – IBISC Lab Université Saclay, France | VR, haptics |
| Rivas, Ricardo | Master Student – UNAM, Mexico | Medical simulation |
| Rongrong, Liu | Postdoc – University of Strasbourg, France | Vision, perception |
| Sadati, S.M.Hadi | Postdoc – King’s College London, UK | Robotics |
| Sandoval, Antonio | MBA – PUCP, Peru | Administration |
| Sangeun | Researcher – Asan Medical Center, South Korea | Medical simulation |
| Schegg, Pierre | PhD Student – Inria Lille, France | IA, soft-robotics |
| Scheikl, Paul Maria | PhD Student – KIT, Germany | Soft-robotics |
| Schreck, Camille | Researcher – Inria Nancy, France | Interactive simulation |
| Shabani, Majid | PhD Student – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy | Soft-robotics |
| Singh, Shantanu | PhD Student – Tel Aviv University, Israel | Robotics |
| Soudah, Eduardo | Engineer – CIMNE UPC, Spain | Blood flow, aneurysm |
| Suruagy Perrusi, Pedro | Engineer – Inria Strasbourg, France | Medical simulation |
| Tabrizian, Seyedreza | PhD Student – Vrije Universiteit of Brussels, Belgium | Soft-robotics |
| Tagliabue, Eleonora | PhD Student – University of Verona, Italy | Medical simulation |
| Tonkens, Sander | Grad Student – Stanford University, USA | Soft-robotics |
| Tymkovych, Maksym | Researcher – Kharkiv National University, Ukraine | Robotics, electronics |
| Villard, Pierre-Frédéric | Researcher – Loria, France | Biomechanics, VR |
| Winhell | Researcher – Nanchang University, China | Medical simulation |
| Xun, Lingxiao | PhD Student – Inria Lille, France | Soft-robotics |
| Ying Wu, Jie | PhD Student – Johns Hopkins University, USA | Data-driven simulation |
| Young | PhD Student – Shanghai Jiaotong University, China | IA |
| Zara, Florence | Researcher – Université Lyon 1 / LIRIS, France | Medical simulation |
| Zeng, Ziqiu | PhD Student – Inria Strasbourg, France | Linear algebra |
| Zhang, Doudou | PhD Student – TU Dresden, Germany | Soft-robotics |
Consortium staff
| Paran, Guillaume | Engineer – SOFA Consortium, France | Architecture, DevOps |
| Roy, Frederick | Engineer – SOFA Consortium, France | Visualization, achitecture |
| Talbot, Hugo | Engineer – SOFA Consortium, France | Community, Physics |
