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Robotics
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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. A signal having the characteristic of being continuous and changing smoothly over a given range - rather than switching suddenly between certain levels.
Pitch
Potentiometer
Analog Signal
Manipulators
2. The component of a robot that comes into contact with the work piece and does the actual work on it. Also known as the hand
Limit Switch
Drive gear
End effector
Hydraulic
3. Containing - producing - arising from - or actuated by electricity
Maintenance
Inverse
Electric
Automation
4. Technology dealing with the design - construction - and operation of robots and automation
Rack and Pinion
Work
Robotics
Experimentation
5. A robot is a machine that performs complicated tasks and is guided by automatic controls
Experimentation
Energy
Robot
Pseudocode
6. Operated by the action of water or other fluids
Hydraulic
Gear
Automation
Factory
7. A community - nation - or broad grouping of people having common traditions - institutions - and collective activities and interests
Efficiency
Driven Gear
Society
Ratio
8. A group of interacting - interrelated - or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a common goal
End effector
Driven Gear
System
Economics
9. A back and forth movement
Reciprocating
Output
Open -Loop System
Behavior
10. A mechanical arrangement consisting of a toothed wheel driven by a short revolving cylinder bearing a screw thread
Rotary Motion
Efficiency
Society
Worm and wheel
11. A turn where one wheel rotates and the other stays in place - causing the robot's body to 'swing around the stationary wheel
Limitation
Swing Turn
Reprogram
Feedback
12. The ability to do work
Efficiency
Energy
Chain
Closed-Loop System
13. The gear which transmits power and motion to the rest of the system. The input gear
Limit Switch
Drive gear
Computer Aided Manufacturing
Gear
14. A push or pull on an object
Force
Driven Gear
Swing Turn
Oscillate
15. Programs and other operating information used by a computer
Analog Signal
Software...
Touch Sensor
Society
16. A level or point at which something would start or cease to happen or come into effect
While Loop
System
Threshold
Reciprocating
17. The application of force that moves an object a certain distance
Electric
Work
Flexible Manufacturing System
Economics
18. To function imperfectly or badly
Energy
Malfunction
Work
Driven Gear
19. The information produced by a computer
Debug
Crank and Slider
Output
Pitch
20. The use of technology to ease human labor or to extend the mental or physical capabilities of humans
Swing Turn
Limit Switch
Experimentation
Automation
21. Locating and finding the cause of problems related to technological products or systems
Reciprocating
Controller
Troubleshoot
Rack and Pinion
22. The upkeep of industrial facilities and equipment and/or software
End effector
Reprogram
Experimentation
Maintenance
23. A connected flexible series of links used for fastening or securing objects and pulling or supporting loads
Output
Gear Ratio
Linear motion
Chain
24. The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other
Ratio
Worm and wheel
Gear
Economics
25. A gear between the driver and the driven gear used to change rotational direction
Idler gear
Work
Troubleshoot
Rotary Motion
26. Shorthand notation for programming which uses a combination of informal programming structures and verbal descriptions of a code.
Experimentation
Maintenance
Gear
Pseudocode
27. Set of instructions that control the operation of a computer
Program
Linear motion
Electric
Power Supply
28. Opposite in position - direction - order - or effect
Impact
Inverse
Trade- off
Computer Program
29. A company- wide management philosophy for planning - integration - and implementation of automation
Swing Turn
Chain
Feedback
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
30. A twisting force
Reprogram
Belt and Pulley
Behavior
Torque
31. The transmission of power between shafts by means of a belt connecting pulleys on the shafts
Open -Loop System
Belt and Pulley
Analog Signal
Limit Switch
32. A balancing of factors - all of which are not attainable at the same time; giving up one thing in return for another
Electric
Trade- off
Gear
Swing Turn
33. A social science that deals with production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
End effector
Threshold
Touch Sensor
Economics
34. Pertaining to or operated by air or other gas
Pneumatic
Reciprocating
Factory
Threshold
35. 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.
Gear
Automation
Limit Switch
Comments
36. The rewriting or revising of a sequence of instructions - especially a computer program
Drive gear
Oscillate
Automation
Reprogram
37. A turn where one wheel rotates forward and the other rotates backward - causing the robot to sit and spin in place
Driven Gear
Point Turn
Mechanism
Pitch
38. A toothed wheel that works with others to alter the relation between the speed of an engine and the speed of the driven parts
Ratio
Gear
Torque
Pseudocode
39. An arm- like mechanism on a robotic system which grabs and moves objects with a number of degrees of freedom under automatic control.
Manipulators
Touch Sensor
Impact
Reprogram
40. A step- by- step procedure for solving a problem - especially by a computer
Open -Loop System
Hydraulic
Efficiency
Algorithm
41. The member of a pair of gears to which motion and power are transmitted by the other. The output gear
Swing Turn
Driven Gear
While Loop
Ratio
42. The distance between adjacent threads in a screw
Driven Gear
Pitch
Mechanism
Malfunction
43. A technique that is used to make a process automatic
Automation
Manipulators
Work
Reprogram
44. The process of locating trouble and making repairs in machinery and technical equipment
Oscillate
Sprocket
Algorithm
Troubleshoot
45. A building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing or producing goods
Threshold
Factory
Malfunction
Hydraulic
46. A swing back and forth at a regular rate
Limit Switch
Oscillate
Innovation
Touch Sensor
47. A control system that has no means for comparing the output with input for control purposes. An open - loop system often requires human intervention
Troubleshoot
Open -Loop System
Society
Inverse
48. A system that uses feedback from the output to control the input
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Closed-Loop System
System
Rack and Pinion
49. A device that detects some important physical quality or quantity about the surrounding environment - and conveys the information to the robot in electronic form
Energy
Sensor
Drive gear
Mechanism
50. Something put into a system - such as resources - in order to achieve a result
Reciprocating
Input
Robotics
Output