The field of soft robots would benefit from electrically controlled contractile actuators in the form of fibers that achieve a strain of 20% in less than a second while exerting high force. This work explores possible designs for achieving this goal using self-contained electroosmotic fluid pumping within a tube-shaped structure. The most promising configuration is a combination of a bellows an...

We are concerned with a real-time quality of service (QOS) estimation method for ATM statistical multiplexers with heterogeneous ON/OFF sources. We propose a real-time modeling method for the superposed traffic by a two-state MMPP by approximating the density function of aggregate cell arrival rate as a Bellows-like Poisson process. We also investigate a real-time calculation of the waiting tim...