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Robotics
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engineering
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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 balancing of factors - all of which are not attainable at the same time; giving up one thing in return for another
Trade- off
Simple gear train
Limitation
Hydraulic
2. The effect or influence of one thing on another. Some impacts are anticipated - and others are unanticipated.
Drive gear
Impact
Limit Switch
Output
3. A step- by- step procedure for solving a problem - especially by a computer
Trade- off
Algorithm
Touch Sensor
Comments
4. A twisting force
Innovation
Closed-Loop System
Torque
Open -Loop System
5. A group of interacting - interrelated - or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a common goal
Bevel Gear
System
Work envelope
Output
6. To function imperfectly or badly
Malfunction
Input
Feedback
Reprogram
7. Information about the output of a system that can be used to make adjustments
Feedback
End effector
Programmer
Efficiency
8. The rewriting or revising of a sequence of instructions - especially a computer program
Efficiency
Mechanism
While Loop
Reprogram
9. The application of force that moves an object a certain distance
Oscillate
Drive gear
Work
Automation
10. A system of discrete states: high or low - on or off - 1 or 0
Flexible Manufacturing System
Reprogram
Hydraulic
Digital Signal
11. A building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing or producing goods
Flexible Manufacturing System
While Loop
Factory
Open -Loop System
12. A rotating gear that meshes wit ha bar that has a gear tooth along its length. Changes rotating motion in a linear motion.
Rack and Pinion
Closed-Loop System
Behavior
Digital Signal
13. The process of locating trouble and making repairs in machinery and technical equipment
Oscillate
Troubleshoot
Pseudocode
Idler gear
14. A sensor used to measure the angular position of the axle or shaft passing through its center
Reprogram
Potentiometer
Pitch
Troubleshoot
15. One of a pair of gears used to connect two shafts whose axes intersect
Potentiometer
Bevel Gear
Efficiency
Behavior
16. A signal having the characteristic of being continuous and changing smoothly over a given range - rather than switching suddenly between certain levels.
Input
Invention
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Analog Signal
17. Conforming to a established set principles or accepted professional standards or conduct
Limitation
Ethical
Trade- off
Pitch
18. An improvement of an existing technological product - system - or method of doing something
Innovation
Manipulators
Hydraulic
Controller
19. The ability to bring a desired result with the least waste of time - energy - or material
Point Turn
Gear
Output
Efficiency
20. A push or pull on an object
While Loop
Potentiometer
Limit Switch
Force
21. A mechanical arrangement consisting of a toothed wheel driven by a short revolving cylinder bearing a screw thread
Worm and wheel
Belt and Pulley
Rack and Pinion
Sensor
22. The distance between adjacent threads in a screw
Pitch
Pneumatic
Sprocket
Pseudocode
23. A community - nation - or broad grouping of people having common traditions - institutions - and collective activities and interests
Debug
Society
Automation
Drive gear
24. A new product - system - or process that has never existed before - created by study and experimentation
Invention
Worm and wheel
Ethical
Workforce
25. The use of technology to ease human labor or to extend the mental or physical capabilities of humans
Workforce
Force
Belt and Pulley
Automation
26. In robotics - a series of coded instructions the robot must follow
Inverse
Output
Flexible Manufacturing System
Computer Program
27. The upkeep of industrial facilities and equipment and/or software
Maintenance
Power Supply
Experimentation
Pneumatic
28. An arm- like mechanism on a robotic system which grabs and moves objects with a number of degrees of freedom under automatic control.
Manipulators
Sprocket
Oscillate
Society
29. Toothlike projections arranged on a wheel rim to engage the links of a chain
Gear
Output
Robotics
Sprocket
30. Anything your robot does; turning no a motor is a behavior - following a line is a behavior - navigating a maze is a behavior
Closed-Loop System
Output
Behavior
Software...
31. A system that uses feedback from the output to control the input
Force
Closed-Loop System
Chain
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
32. A back and forth movement
Reciprocating
Crank and Slider
Output
Inverse
33. A sensor that detects physical contact and reports back to the controller whether its contact area is being pushed in or not
Factory
Touch Sensor
Feedback
Point Turn
34. Circular movement
Programmer
Rotary Motion
Work
Torque
35. Set of instructions that control the operation of a computer
Threshold
Program
Flexible Manufacturing System
Swing Turn
36. The results of the operation of any system
Output
System
Pseudocode
Controller
37. The people available for work in a particular area - firm - or industry
Drive gear
Simple gear train
Workforce
Feedback
38. Some factor that restricts the scope of activity or accomplishment
Limitation
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Torque
Oscillate
39. The efficient production of small amounts of products
Flexible Manufacturing System
Hydraulic
System
Driven Gear
40. The member of a pair of gears to which motion and power are transmitted by the other. The output gear
Driven Gear
Algorithm
Hydraulic
Controller
41. The part of a machine which contains two or more pieces arranged so that the motion of one compels the motion of the others
Belt and Pulley
Sprocket
Open -Loop System
Mechanism
42. A turn where one wheel rotates and the other stays in place - causing the robot's body to 'swing around the stationary wheel
Robotics
Behavior
Swing Turn
Programmer
43. Containing - producing - arising from - or actuated by electricity
Electric
Automation
Workforce
Reprogram
44. Technology dealing with the design - construction - and operation of robots and automation
Troubleshoot
Automation
Touch Sensor
Robotics
45. The information produced by a computer
Trade- off
Output
Closed-Loop System
Open -Loop System
46. The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other
Maintenance
Ratio
End effector
Chain
47. A social science that deals with production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
Computer Aided Manufacturing
Manipulators
Economics
Simple gear train
48. A toothed wheel that works with others to alter the relation between the speed of an engine and the speed of the driven parts
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Ethical
Gear
System
49. A person who writes and tests computer programs
Closed-Loop System
Oscillate
Programmer
Threshold
50. Pertaining to or operated by air or other gas
Factory
Output
Pneumatic
Reciprocating