In this article, we present a rat-inspired whisker sensor for a biomimetic robotic rat and demonstrate its superior tactile perception performance. In particular, the design, fabrication, modeling, and experimental characterization are presented. The sensor is fabricated using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. Moreover, by modeling the whisker as a Euler–Bernoulli beam (EBB) using a support vector machine (SVM) algorithm, we develop the sensor’s capability to identify object features.
