A fundamental question in the investigation of any sensory system is what physical signals
drive its sensory neurons during natural behavior. Surprisingly, in the whisker system, it is …

Nocturnal mammals such as rats heavily depend on whisker-based tactile perception to find
their way through burrows and to identify objects. There is diversity in the whiskers in terms …

We describe a novel, biomimetic tactile sensing system modeled on the facial whiskers
(vibrissae) of animals such as rats and mice. The “BIOTACT Sensor” consists of a conical …

Many rodents use their whiskers to distinguish objects by surface texture. To examine
possible mechanisms for this discrimination, data from an artificial whisker attached to a …

This is a novel investigation on the possibility of detecting barely visible impact damage
(BVID) in composite materials by whisking across the surface via tactile whisker sensors that …

Texture perception is studied here in a physical model of the rat whisker system consisting of
a robot equipped with a biomimetic vibrissal sensor. Investigations of whisker motion in …

Electromechanical whiskers are inexpensive and useful tactile sensor systems for robotic
map** tasks within environments problematic to image and range sensors. This research …

Why build robot models of animals and their nervous systems? One answer is that in
building a robot model of a target organism, which mimics sufficiently some aspects of that …

Robot whisker sensors have been researched in many studies but have been difficult or
impossible to replicate across labs. An open source hardware robot whisker is presented …

Whisker movement has been shown to be under active control in certain specialist animals
such as rats and mice. Though this whisker movement is well characterized, the role and …