Thesis about Physic Engines

[JDTR75]

Hi everyone I'm new at the forum, I'm from Venezuela. I'm doing my thesis on the use of Physic Engines (PE) in the Control field, I'm applying for a Systems Engineer degree in the University of Los Andes (ULA).

The doubt I have is that I would like to know if this PE can be used for this what I wanna do. My approach is to develop a 3D application/animation where I can simulate and desing a control law for a system (e.g simple pendulum). I'm more interested in soft-bodies than in rigid-bodies and of course collision detection.

So if anyone have done or is doing something like I'm proposing, I'd be glad to have all the feedback possible with you guys.

Thanks! and I'll be waiting for answers.