Yang-zs1110/Kinetostatics_for_CACM

The project serves as the supplemental code for a specific peer-reviewed IEEE article (10531684). While the underlying research on contact-aided continuum robots is novel within the niche of soft robotics, the software itself lacks defensibility as a standalone product. With only 1 star and 1 fork over nearly two years, it functions primarily as an academic artifact rather than a living ecosystem. The defensibility is low (2) because the code is a direct implementation of mathematical models that can be reproduced by any domain expert reading the paper. Frontier labs like OpenAI or Google have little interest in niche mechanical kinetostatics, making the frontier risk low. The primary displacement risk comes from broader soft robotics simulation frameworks (like SOFA Framework or MuJoCo) incorporating similar contact-aided modeling capabilities, which would render this specialized script obsolete for researchers.