Ansys Hyperelastic Soft Pneumatic Actuator FEM Simulation Tutorial / Soft Robotics Simulation

The objective of this video tutorial is to show you step by step How To carry out an FEM Simulation of an hyperelastic soft material pneumatic actuator (PneuNet) to predict and analyze its static bending behaviour when pressurized using Ansys!! These type of pneumatic networks have been introduced lately as soft robotic actuators. In the soft robotics research field, design, manufacture, simulation and control of such actuators is intensively being investigated. Chapter on this video ------------------------------------------------------ 0:00 Introduction 2:24 Workbench description 4:13 Material definition 8:21 Import geometry and named selections 17:01 Material assignment 19:16 Loads & BC 24:01 Mesh generation 28:10 Contact interactions 30:35 Analysis settings 34:51 Recap setup 35:36 Solver settings and solution setup 41:05 Job execution and monitoring 49:05 Job review and results _________________________________ Download STEP Input File from: