I’m very new to Isaac Sim, and I haven’t had a lot of time to mess with it. I have been tasked with implementing soil deformation in Isaac Sim so that a lunar rover would leave realistic tire tracks. I’ve read so far that it’s impossible but I am wondering if there’s anyone who has done this. If not I have a few ideas to try. I’m hoping to represent soil as a FEA problem and move the collision mesh and UV map to match. I have no idea if it’s possible to move the collision mesh. Any advice or related work is appreciated.
Hi @devanneil2004,
Thank you for your question. Unfortunately, Isaac Sim currently is not able to support granular surface simulation and it is not in the roadmap. NVIDIA is providing a new exciting simulator Newton that will support granular surface simulation through the Warp physics engine.
Hope that helps!
Michael