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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 toothed wheel that works with others to alter the relation between the speed of an engine and the speed of the driven parts
Pseudocode
Gear
Drive gear
Power Supply
2. The rewriting or revising of a sequence of instructions - especially a computer program
Pseudocode
Reprogram
Power Supply
Force
3. The effect or influence of one thing on another. Some impacts are anticipated - and others are unanticipated.
Automation
Impact
Crank and Slider
Pneumatic
4. A robot is a machine that performs complicated tasks and is guided by automatic controls
Mechanism
Work
Robot
Power Supply
5. Information about the output of a system that can be used to make adjustments
Feedback
Pneumatic
Gear
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
6. Technology dealing with the design - construction - and operation of robots and automation
Invention
Impact
Robotics
Experimentation
7. A control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly
Open -Loop System
Torque
While Loop
Energy
8. Containing - producing - arising from - or actuated by electricity
Point Turn
Electric
While Loop
Impact
9. A signal having the characteristic of being continuous and changing smoothly over a given range - rather than switching suddenly between certain levels.
System
Reciprocating
Analog Signal
Swing Turn
10. Toothlike projections arranged on a wheel rim to engage the links of a chain
Robot
Program
Programmer
Sprocket
11. Try our a new procedure - idea - or activity
Debug
Experimentation
Gear Ratio
Potentiometer
12. Opposite in position - direction - order - or effect
Inverse
Troubleshoot
Work
Program
13. Movement in a straight line
Program
Input
Linear motion
Reprogram
14. An improvement of an existing technological product - system - or method of doing something
Innovation
Point Turn
Ratio
Debug
15. A community - nation - or broad grouping of people having common traditions - institutions - and collective activities and interests
System
Society
Ethical
Output
16. The process of locating trouble and making repairs in machinery and technical equipment
Troubleshoot
Trade- off
Programmer
Maintenance
17. A device that detects some important physical quality or quantity about the surrounding environment - and conveys the information to the robot in electronic form
Feedback
Economics
Energy
Sensor
18. A rotating gear that meshes wit ha bar that has a gear tooth along its length. Changes rotating motion in a linear motion.
Bevel Gear
Troubleshoot
Rack and Pinion
Trade- off
19. A turn where one wheel rotates forward and the other rotates backward - causing the robot to sit and spin in place
Point Turn
Gear
Rotary Motion
Chain
20. The application of force that moves an object a certain distance
Sprocket
Reciprocating
Chain
Work
21. Pertaining to or operated by air or other gas
Input
Analog Signal
Software...
Pneumatic
22. 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
Experimentation
End effector
Rack and Pinion
Sprocket
23. The process of detecting and eliminating a device's malfunctions
Society
Debug
Analog Signal
Idler gear
24. A building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing or producing goods
Impact
Behavior
Crank and Slider
Factory
25. Information fed into a system
Input
Sprocket
Robot
Innovation
26. The transmission of power between shafts by means of a belt connecting pulleys on the shafts
Workforce
Belt and Pulley
Output
Comments
27. A person who writes and tests computer programs
Rotary Motion
Maintenance
Programmer
Debug
28. Operated by the action of water or other fluids
Algorithm
Ethical
System
Hydraulic
29. A social science that deals with production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
Maintenance
Hydraulic
Society
Economics
30. A turn where one wheel rotates and the other stays in place - causing the robot's body to 'swing around the stationary wheel
Troubleshoot
Reprogram
Swing Turn
Worm and wheel
31. Locating and finding the cause of problems related to technological products or systems
Torque
Troubleshoot
Maintenance
Power Supply
32. Programs and other operating information used by a computer
Software...
Robotics
Sprocket
Linear motion
33. The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other
Drive gear
Bevel Gear
Ratio
Ethical
34. A back and forth movement
Inverse
Society
While Loop
Reciprocating
35. A push or pull on an object
Malfunction
Limit Switch
Force
Sensor
36. The part of a machine which contains two or more pieces arranged so that the motion of one compels the motion of the others
Swing Turn
Worm and wheel
Linear motion
Mechanism
37. A company- wide management philosophy for planning - integration - and implementation of automation
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Pneumatic
Power Supply
Torque
38. A sensor used to measure the angular position of the axle or shaft passing through its center
Power Supply
Ethical
Potentiometer
Inverse
39. A connected flexible series of links used for fastening or securing objects and pulling or supporting loads
Chain
Swing Turn
Algorithm
Belt and Pulley
40. The information produced by a computer
Limit Switch
Swing Turn
Troubleshoot
Output
41. Shorthand notation for programming which uses a combination of informal programming structures and verbal descriptions of a code.
Chain
Driven Gear
Digital Signal
Pseudocode
42. The distance between adjacent threads in a screw
Comments
End effector
Crank and Slider
Pitch
43. In robotics - a tiny computer that acts as the robot's brain and contains the computer program
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Controller
Innovation
Experimentation
44. 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.
Comments
Computer Aided Manufacturing
Swing Turn
Manipulators
45. A level or point at which something would start or cease to happen or come into effect
Economics
Energy
Threshold
Pseudocode
46. A technique that is used to make a process automatic
Automation
Input
Invention
Troubleshoot
47. A gear between the driver and the driven gear used to change rotational direction
Worm and wheel
Rotary Motion
Workforce
Idler gear
48. A sensor that detects physical contact and reports back to the controller whether its contact area is being pushed in or not
Mechanism
Touch Sensor
Closed-Loop System
Trade- off
49. The gear which transmits power and motion to the rest of the system. The input gear
Drive gear
Robot
Efficiency
Analog Signal
50. A system of discrete states: high or low - on or off - 1 or 0
Digital Signal
Input
Torque
Sensor