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The fiber-skin is made of the optical fiber embedded in the silicone elastomer. The optical fiber is an instinctive and alternative sensor for tactile perception with high sensitivity and reliability, also low cost and susceptibility to the magnetic interference. The silicone elastomer serves as a substrate with high flexibility and biocompatibility, and the optical fiber core serves as the vibro-perception sensor to detect physical motions like tapping and sliding. According to the experimental results, the designed optical fiber-skin demonstrates the ability to detect the physical motions like tapping and sliding in both the Mach-Zehnder and OPLL vibro-perception systems. For direct contact condition, the OPLL vibro-perception system shows better performance compared with the Mach-Zehnder vibro-perception system. However, the Mach-Zehnder vibro-perception system is preferable to the OPLL system in the indirect contact experiment. In summary, the fiber-skin is validated to have light touch character and excellent repeatability, which is highly-suitable for skin-mimic sensing.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18051531","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,14]],"date-time":"2018-05-14T02:57:20Z","timestamp":1526266640000},"page":"1531","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Vibro-Perception of Optical Bio-Inspired Fiber-Skin"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2206-9490","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tao","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Innovative Science and Technology, Tokai University, Hiratsuka-shi 259-1292, Japan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5599-6261","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sheng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Micro\/Nano Technology Center, Tokai University, Hiratsuka-shi 259-1292, Japan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0739-1556","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guo-Wei","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Innovative Science and Technology, Tokai University, Hiratsuka-shi 259-1292, Japan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4316-5449","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuta","family":"Sunami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Micro\/Nano Technology Center, Tokai University, Hiratsuka-shi 259-1292, Japan"},{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokai University, Hiratsuka-shi 259-1292, Japan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"74","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tcb.2014.10.003","article-title":"Merkel cells and neurons keep in touch","volume":"25","author":"Woo","year":"2015","journal-title":"Trends Cell Biol."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"950","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1254229","article-title":"The gentle touch receptors of mammalian skin","volume":"346","author":"Zimmerman","year":"2014","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"25","DOI":"10.1016\/j.bsbt.2017.02.002","article-title":"Texture design for light touch perception","volume":"3","author":"Zhang","year":"2017","journal-title":"Biosurface Biotribol."},{"key":"ref_4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1098","DOI":"10.1016\/j.msec.2017.04.040","article-title":"Development of haptic based piezoresistive artificial fingertip: Toward efficient tactile sensing systems for humanoids","volume":"77","author":"TermehYousefi","year":"2017","journal-title":"Mater. 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