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Shape Classification Using a Single Seal-Whisker-Style Sensor Based on the Neural Network Method.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Aug 21, 2024
Seals, sea lions, and other aquatic animals rely on their whiskers to identify and track underwater targets, offering valuable inspiration for the development of low-power, portable, and environmentally friendly sensors. Here, we design a single seal...
Animals Vibrissae Seals, Earless Neural Networks, Computer
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Electronic whiskers for velocity sensing based on the liquid metal hysteresis effect.

Soft matter Dec 14, 2022
The artificial biomimetic sensory hair as state-of-art electronics has drawn great attention from academic theorists of industrial production given its potential application in soft robotics, environmental exploration and health monitoring. However, ...
Electronics Motion Biomimetics Metals Robotics Vibrissae Humans Animals
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Review of Recent Bio-Inspired Design and Manufacturing of Whisker Tactile Sensors.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Apr 1, 2022
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 potential in a variety of applications e.g., robotics, underwater vehicl...
Mammals Touch Printing, Three-Dimensional Vibrissae Animals Robotics
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Biomimetic Hairy Whiskers for Robotic Skin Tactility.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) May 8, 2021
Touch sensing is among the most important sensing capabilities of a human, and the same is true for smart robotics. Current research on tactile sensors is mainly concentrated on electronic skin (e-skin), but e-skin is prone to be easily dirtied, dama...
Animals Robotics Skin Humans Hair Touch Vibrissae Biomimetics Biomimetic Materials Mechanoreceptors
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Real-Time Closed-Loop Feedback in Behavioral Time Scales Using DeepLabCut.

eNeuro Apr 16, 2021
Computer vision approaches have made significant inroads into offline tracking of behavior and estimating animal poses. In particular, because of their versatility, deep-learning approaches have been gaining attention in behavioral tracking without a...
Vibrissae Feedback Animals Behavior, Animal Movement Mice Neural Networks, Computer
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A Vibrissa-Inspired Highly Flexible Tactile Sensor: Scanning 3D Object Surfaces Providing Tactile Images.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Feb 24, 2021
Just as the sense of touch complements vision in various species, several robots could benefit from advanced tactile sensors, in particular when operating under poor visibility. A prominent tactile sense organ, frequently serving as a natural paragon...
Vibrissae Robotics Animals Touch Rats
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Mechanics and Morphological Compensation Strategy for Trimmed Soft Whisker Sensor.

Soft robotics Jan 18, 2021
Recent studies have been inspired by natural whiskers for a proposal of tactile sensing system to augment the sensory ability of autonomous robots. In this study, we propose a novel artificial soft whisker sensor that is not only flexible but also ad...
Touch Touch Perception Vibrissae Animals Robotics
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Structured networks support sparse traveling waves in rodent somatosensory cortex.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Apr 30, 2018
Neurons responding to different whiskers are spatially intermixed in the superficial layer 2/3 (L2/3) of the rodent barrel cortex, where a single whisker deflection activates a sparse, distributed neuronal population that spans multiple cortical colu...
Animals Action Potentials Neural Pathways Electric Stimulation Neurons Neural Networks, Computer Somatosensory Cortex Vibrissae Rodentia
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Aerodynamic parameters from distributed heterogeneous CNT hair sensors with a feedforward neural network.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Nov 10, 2016
Distributed arrays of artificial hair sensors have bio-like sensing capabilities to obtain spatial and temporal surface flow information which is an important aspect of an effective fly-by-feel system. The spatiotemporal surface flow measurement enab...
Vibrissae Aviation Flight, Animal Neural Networks, Computer Calibration Air Movements Biomimetic Materials Animals Models, Biological
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Tactile soft-sparse mean fluid-flow imaging with a robotic whisker array.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Aug 4, 2015
An array of whiskers is critical to many mammals to survive in their environment. However, current engineered systems generally employ vision, radar or sonar to explore the surroundings, not having sufficiently benefited from tactile perception. Insp...
Vibrissae Transducers, Pressure Tomography Equipment Design Biomimetics Equipment Failure Analysis Touch Rheology Environmental Monitoring Robotics Humans Animals
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