Biomimetics is a research field that is achieving particular prominence through an explosion
of new discoveries in biology and engineering. The field concerns novel technologies …

A key question in systems neuroscience is to identify how sensory stimuli are represented in
neuronal activity, and how the activity of sensory neurons in turn is “read out” by downstream …

We implemented neuromorphic artificial touch and emulated the firing behavior of
mechanoreceptors by injecting the raw outputs of a biomimetic tactile sensor into an …

Whisker sensors are a class of tactile sensors that have recently attracted attention. Inspired
by mammals' whiskers known as mystacial vibrissae, they have displayed tremendous …

Active vibrissal touch can be used to replace or to supplement sensory systems such as
computer vision and, therefore, improve the sensory capacity of mobile robots. This paper …

All mammals but humans use whiskers in order to rapidly acquire information about objects
in the vicinity of the head. Collisions of the head and objects can be avoided as the contact …

In this work, we present an active tactile perception approach for contour following based on
a probabilistic framework. Tactile data were collected using a biomimetic fingertip sensor …

Almost all mammals use their mystacial vibrissae (whiskers) as important tactile sensors.
There are no sensors along the length of a whisker: all sensing is performed by …

Rodents use whisking to probe actively their environment and to locate objects in space,
hence providing a paradigmatic biological example of active sensing. Numerous studies …

Sensor morphology, the morphology of a sensing mechanism which plays a role of shaping
the desired response from physical stimuli from surroundings to generate signals usable as …