The SOFA Week is designed to gather the entire SOFA community, to present technological and scientific advances, while fostering the networking within the community. Previous occurrences made it as the most popular even within the community. Check out the 2023 edition. This year, we are back onsite with live demos!
25-29th November
Onsite in Lille & possible online access
25th Nov 2024: Training session
For the first time this year, two parallel training courses will be proposed to open SOFA Week. On the one hand, an introductory course to SOFA, providing interested participants with a hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of SOFA, the community and the theoretical foundations of simulation. On the other hand, an advanced course on soft-robotics, with theoretical explanations on robotics with soft bodies and a practical part for building your first simulation.
26th Nov 2024: 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.
27-29th Nov 2024: 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: 25th November 2024
Location: Place Building – Room C21, Lille (170 Av. de Bretagne, 59000 Lille → Find your way)
Level: Beginner – Medium (max 8 participants)
Registration costs
- early bird: 500€ excl.tax. (before the 11th October 2024)
- regular fare: 650€ excl. tax.
Introduction course
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.
| Time (CET) | Training steps |
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| 9 am | Overview of SOFA and its community |
| 10 am | Coffee – for a good start! |
| 10:30 am | Examples of applications with SOFA |
| 11 am | User Tutorial (part 1) |
| noon | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm | User Tutorial (part 2) – involving SofaPython3 |
| 3 pm | Coffee break |
| 3:30 pm | Understand physics with SOFA: from the math to the code |
| 5:00 pm | Questions & Closing of the training |
Soft-robotics course
Requiring mastery of the basics introduced in the introduction course, this advanced session allows to understand the theory of soft-robotics and it offers the opportunity to build soft-robotics simulations.
| Time (CET) | Training steps |
|---|---|
| 10 am | Basis on time integration in SOFA |
| 10:30 am | Soft robots: actuators |
| noon | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm | Soft robots: kinematic jacobian |
| 2:30 pm | Soft robots: inverse kinematics |
| 4:00 pm | Questions & Closing of the training |
These trainings are supported by
Day: 26th November 2024
Location: Euratechnologie – Conference room 1 & 2 (Place de Saintignon, 165 Av. de Bretagne, 59000 Lille → Find your way)
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
All researchers, engineers and students are welcome to present their work on Tuesday 26th November 2024. Duration of the presentation will be between 15 and 20 minutes (including questions) depending on the number of selected submissions. Breaks are scheduled after each sessions to foster discussions and connections.
To present your work at the SOFA Symposium, all you need is to mention your interest in presenting your work at the symposium, to share a (non-definitive) title for the pre-program and to write a short abstract (no more than 200 words) upong registration.
— Important Dates
- October 25th, 2024: submission deadline for presentation proposals
- November 8th, 2024: notification to authors
- November 15th, 2024: registration deadline for the SOFA Week
Day: 27-29th, November 2024
Location: Place Building – Room C01, Lille (170 Av. de Bretagne, 59000 Lille → Find your way)
Level: All
The week will close with the 18th SOFA Technical Committee. This technical committee governs and takes all technical decisions for the roadmap towards upcoming releases. This committee is free and open to all. Don’t hesitate to take part and find out how our open-source software project is managed!
To do so, all you need is to confirm your attendance by registering.
Wed. 27th November 2024
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Thur. 28th – Fri. 29th November 2024
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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 – 600€ | Public Prize – 400€ |
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The call for the SOFA awards is open until the 8th of November 2024. Any contribution – as long it is open – will be rewarded at the SOFA Week 2024. Winners will be announced during the Symposium on 26th November.
Candidates
| Slicer-SOFA | Palomar, Rafael | SlicerSOFA is an open-source extension that seamlessly integrates the SOFA into 3D Slicer, a versatile platform for medical image analysis and visualization. This integration facilitates the development and execution of complex biomechanical models, enhancing applications in surgical planning, medical training, and biomedical research. By combining the strengths of both platforms, SlicerSOFA aims to advance the field of medical simulation and provide a comprehensive tool for clinicians, researchers, and educators. |
| SofaViscoElastic | Ferrentino, Pasquale | A plugin for Sofa to deal with linear visco-elastic and visco-hyperelastic constitutive models that afflict rubber-like materials, like human tissues or silicones and elastomers used in soft robotics. The algorithm and validation experiments on the soft robotics use case will be presented. These testify to the accuracy and possible application of the FEA-based control approach. |
Awards committee
- Etienne Menager – Inria
- Claire Martin – Inria
- Andrea Protopapa – Politecnico di Torino
- Paul Scheikl – Johns Hopkins University
Previous winners
| Organizers’ Prize | Public Prize |
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Live demos
| Compliance Robotics | EMIO : Reconfigurable parallel continuum robot for teaching and labs |
| InfinyTech3D | SOFA-Unity integration |
| InSimo | Robotic surgery suturing simulator & Endoscopic ultrasound simulator |
| Anatoscope | Anatolog – An MD pressure sensor on deformable surfaces |
Industry
| Choi Jaesoon | CEO – LN Robotics, South Korea | Medical staff |
| Debord Adrien | Engineer – Anatoscope/Circle, France | Biomechanical simulation |
| Dumesnil Hugo | Engineer – SpineVision, France | Biomechanical simulation |
| Duriez Christian | CEO – Compliance robotics, France | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Faure François | Manager – Anatoscope, France | Biomechanical simulation |
| Fricker Sébastien | Engineer – EssilorLuxottica, France | Biomechanical simulation |
| Jo Yeonghun | Software Engineer – LN Robotics, South korea | AI & simulation |
| Jourdes Francois | Head of Research – InSimo, France | Biomechanical simulation |
| Siguenza Julien | CEO – SUFFISCIENS, France | Biomechanical simulation |
| Tagliabue Eleonora | Team Lead – Carl Zeiss AG, Germany | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Tournier Maxime | Engineer – Anatoscope, France | Biomechanical simulation |
| Villette Thierry | Dir. Science & Partnerships – Essilor, France | Biomechanical simulation |
Research
| Adagolodjo Yinoussa | Assistant professor – Inria, France | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Alessandrini Antoine | PhD student – Inria, France | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Beaudet Karl-Philippe | Engineer – Inria, France | Biomechanical simulation |
| Catwell Naomi | Student researcher – ETS, Canada | Haptics |
| Cocquempot Vincent | Professor – University of Lille, France | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Cotin Stephane | Researcher – Inria, France | AI & simulation |
| Dequidt Jeremie | Professor – University of Lille, France | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Enjalbert Robin | Engineer – Inria, France | AI & simulation |
| Ferrentino Pasquale | PostDoc – VUB, Belgium | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Guo Yiru | PhD student – Inria, France | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Jang Taesoo | PostDoc – Asan Medical Center, South Korea | VR/AR |
| Lajimi S. Amir | Publisher – IEEE, Canada | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Liu Changjing | MSc student – Sanghai Jiao Tong University, China | AI & simulation |
| Marchal Damien | Engineer – CNRS, France | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Mazier Arnaud | PostDoc – University of Sydney, Australia | Biomechanical simulation |
| Ménager Etienne | PostDoc – Inria, France | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Naz Nabila | Professor – Canterbury C. C. Univ., United Kingdom | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Ouyoucef Azouaou | PhD student – Inria, France | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Palomar Rafael | Researcher – Oslo University Hospital, Norway | Medical staff |
| Peters Jorg | researcher – U of Florida, United States | VR/AR |
| Peyron Quentin | Researcher – Inria, France | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Ren Hongliang | Researcher – Chinese University, Hong Kong | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Scarponi Valentina | PhD student – Inria, France | AI & simulation |
| Song | Medical staff – Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hosp., China | Surgery |
| Soyoung | Researcher – Samsung Medical Center, South Korea | AI & simulation |
| Tortos Pablo | PhD Student – Chiba University, Japan | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Tymkovych Maksym | Researcher – Kharkiv National University, Ukraine | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Vazquez-Garcia C. E. | PhD student – CINVESTAV, Mexico | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Yu Mei | PhD student – MSU, United States | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Zahra Bounik | PostDoc – Eindhoven University, Netherlands | AI & simulation |
| Zhang Chi | Researcher – TAMU – Dentistry, United States | Biomechanical simulation |
| Zhang Zhongkai | Associate Professor – CAIR, Hong Kong | Robotics or soft-robotics |
| Zheng Gang | Researcher – Inria, France | Robotics or soft-robotics |
Consortium staff
| Baksic, Paul | Engineer – SOFA Consortium, France | Medical robotics |
| Talbot, Hugo | Engineer – SOFA Consortium, France | Community, Biomechanics |
