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Robotics
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engineering
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Pertaining to or operated by air or other gas
Pneumatic
Electric
Comments
Computer Aided Manufacturing
2. Set of instructions that control the operation of a computer
Factory
Malfunction
Program
Pseudocode
3. A new product - system - or process that has never existed before - created by study and experimentation
Invention
Power Supply
Sensor
Robotics
4. A balancing of factors - all of which are not attainable at the same time; giving up one thing in return for another
Bevel Gear
Innovation
Driven Gear
Trade- off
5. Information about the output of a system that can be used to make adjustments
Feedback
Oscillate
Malfunction
Crank and Slider
6. A building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing or producing goods
Factory
Malfunction
Software...
Input
7. A twisting force
Torque
Chain
Sprocket
Inverse
8. A social science that deals with production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
Ethical
Economics
Gear
Simple gear train
9. The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other
Computer Program
Society
Reprogram
Ratio
10. A gear between the driver and the driven gear used to change rotational direction
Input
Idler gear
Invention
Oscillate
11. The member of a pair of gears to which motion and power are transmitted by the other. The output gear
Force
Pseudocode
Driven Gear
Debug
12. The gear which transmits power and motion to the rest of the system. The input gear
Drive gear
Power Supply
Output
Input
13. A system that uses feedback from the output to control the input
Factory
Closed-Loop System
Gear
Reciprocating
14. Using descriptive text to explain portions of code. Comments do not change the way a robot behaves - but are important for the programmer to remember what the code does.
Trade- off
Comments
Robotics
Simple gear train
15. The space within which a robotic arm can move
Invention
Efficiency
Work envelope
Ethical
16. A group of interacting - interrelated - or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a common goal
Chain
Threshold
System
Efficiency
17. A level or point at which something would start or cease to happen or come into effect
Electric
System
Troubleshoot
Threshold
18. A system of discrete states: high or low - on or off - 1 or 0
Gear Ratio
Rotary Motion
Digital Signal
Crank and Slider
19. The upkeep of industrial facilities and equipment and/or software
Reprogram
Open -Loop System
Work envelope
Maintenance
20. Operated by the action of water or other fluids
Hydraulic
Digital Signal
Driven Gear
Factory
21. Some factor that restricts the scope of activity or accomplishment
Troubleshoot
Limitation
Manipulators
Reciprocating
22. A turn where one wheel rotates and the other stays in place - causing the robot's body to 'swing around the stationary wheel
Limit Switch
Input
Swing Turn
Gear
23. The ability to do work
Innovation
Energy
Feedback
Threshold
24. A community - nation - or broad grouping of people having common traditions - institutions - and collective activities and interests
Chain
Behavior
Inverse
Society
25. A signal having the characteristic of being continuous and changing smoothly over a given range - rather than switching suddenly between certain levels.
Analog Signal
Pseudocode
Limitation
Maintenance
26. The process of locating trouble and making repairs in machinery and technical equipment
Troubleshoot
Input
Idler gear
Robotics
27. Locating and finding the cause of problems related to technological products or systems
Robotics
Impact
Troubleshoot
Oscillate
28. The results of the operation of any system
Limit Switch
Output
Inverse
Threshold
29. Programs and other operating information used by a computer
Limit Switch
Hydraulic
Software...
Rotary Motion
30. A control system that has no means for comparing the output with input for control purposes. An open - loop system often requires human intervention
Gear Ratio
Behavior
Touch Sensor
Open -Loop System
31. A connected flexible series of links used for fastening or securing objects and pulling or supporting loads
Linear motion
Chain
Controller
Comments
32. A combination of two or more gears used to transmit motion between two rotating shafts or between a shaft and a slide
Work
Simple gear train
Troubleshoot
Open -Loop System
33. The use of technology to ease human labor or to extend the mental or physical capabilities of humans
Robot
Automation
Oscillate
Electric
34. A sensor that detects physical contact and reports back to the controller whether its contact area is being pushed in or not
Touch Sensor
Malfunction
Worm and wheel
Gear
35. The ratio of the speed of the driving member of a gear train to that of the driven member
Sensor
Force
Gear Ratio
Troubleshoot
36. Conforming to a established set principles or accepted professional standards or conduct
Ethical
Debug
Rack and Pinion
Idler gear
37. Circular movement
Rotary Motion
Point Turn
Ethical
Worm and wheel
38. To function imperfectly or badly
Malfunction
Swing Turn
Society
Debug
39. Something put into a system - such as resources - in order to achieve a result
Linear motion
Automation
Ethical
Input
40. The people available for work in a particular area - firm - or industry
Gear
Threshold
Innovation
Workforce
41. In robotics - a series of coded instructions the robot must follow
Threshold
Computer Program
Energy
Behavior
42. Containing - producing - arising from - or actuated by electricity
Limitation
Pitch
Malfunction
Electric
43. An arm- like mechanism on a robotic system which grabs and moves objects with a number of degrees of freedom under automatic control.
System
Inverse
Manipulators
Troubleshoot
44. A control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly
Linear motion
Oscillate
While Loop
Manipulators
45. Technology dealing with the design - construction - and operation of robots and automation
Power Supply
Bevel Gear
Robotics
Workforce
46. A device that detects some important physical quality or quantity about the surrounding environment - and conveys the information to the robot in electronic form
Simple gear train
Output
Power Supply
Sensor
47. A company- wide management philosophy for planning - integration - and implementation of automation
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Limitation
Computer Program
Inverse
48. In robotics - a tiny computer that acts as the robot's brain and contains the computer program
Work envelope
Reprogram
Controller
Debug
49. The part of a machine which contains two or more pieces arranged so that the motion of one compels the motion of the others
Malfunction
Mechanism
Touch Sensor
Electric
50. A back and forth movement
Drive gear
Trade- off
Sensor
Reciprocating