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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. A turn where one wheel rotates and the other stays in place - causing the robot's body to 'swing around the stationary wheel
Innovation
Swing Turn
Limitation
Troubleshoot
2. A company- wide management philosophy for planning - integration - and implementation of automation
Rack and Pinion
Pitch
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Trade- off
3. Programs and other operating information used by a computer
Automation
Troubleshoot
Potentiometer
Software...
4. A device that detects some important physical quality or quantity about the surrounding environment - and conveys the information to the robot in electronic form
Force
Sensor
Torque
Troubleshoot
5. The upkeep of industrial facilities and equipment and/or software
Gear Ratio
Algorithm
Maintenance
Digital Signal
6. A signal having the characteristic of being continuous and changing smoothly over a given range - rather than switching suddenly between certain levels.
Rotary Motion
System
Torque
Analog Signal
7. The information produced by a computer
Experimentation
Idler gear
Output
Programmer
8. The ability to do work
Algorithm
Digital Signal
Energy
Drive gear
9. A building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing or producing goods
Economics
Input
Digital Signal
Factory
10. Try our a new procedure - idea - or activity
Experimentation
Input
Efficiency
Idler gear
11. Information about the output of a system that can be used to make adjustments
Rotary Motion
Invention
Feedback
System
12. A combination of two or more gears used to transmit motion between two rotating shafts or between a shaft and a slide
Point Turn
Simple gear train
Program
Bevel Gear
13. Information fed into a system
Impact
Inverse
Input
Belt and Pulley
14. Set of instructions that control the operation of a computer
Input
Program
Sensor
Computer Program
15. A control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly
While Loop
Oscillate
Closed-Loop System
Digital Signal
16. The efficient production of small amounts of products
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Flexible Manufacturing System
Factory
Digital Signal
17. The part of a machine which contains two or more pieces arranged so that the motion of one compels the motion of the others
Mechanism
Workforce
Limitation
Controller
18. An arm- like mechanism on a robotic system which grabs and moves objects with a number of degrees of freedom under automatic control.
Rack and Pinion
Limit Switch
Manipulators
Touch Sensor
19. Circular movement
Rotary Motion
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Input
Gear
20. Containing - producing - arising from - or actuated by electricity
Programmer
Limitation
Electric
Swing Turn
21. A step- by- step procedure for solving a problem - especially by a computer
Algorithm
Torque
Behavior
Gear Ratio
22. The use of technology to ease human labor or to extend the mental or physical capabilities of humans
Automation
Swing Turn
Analog Signal
Belt and Pulley
23. Pertaining to or operated by air or other gas
Gear Ratio
Pitch
Open -Loop System
Pneumatic
24. Movement in a straight line
Input
Factory
Computer Program
Linear motion
25. A system of discrete states: high or low - on or off - 1 or 0
Trade- off
Flexible Manufacturing System
Limitation
Digital Signal
26. A swing back and forth at a regular rate
Hydraulic
Electric
Oscillate
Ethical
27. 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
Rotary Motion
End effector
Work envelope
Innovation
28. 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
Flexible Manufacturing System
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Maintenance
29. A back and forth movement
Impact
Reciprocating
Touch Sensor
Workforce
30. A person who writes and tests computer programs
Efficiency
Economics
Reciprocating
Programmer
31. The application of force that moves an object a certain distance
Belt and Pulley
Simple gear train
Work
Torque
32. Using computers to operate and control machines and processes to manufacture a product
Maintenance
Work
Computer Aided Manufacturing
Belt and Pulley
33. A new product - system - or process that has never existed before - created by study and experimentation
Invention
Maintenance
Work
Algorithm
34. The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other
Swing Turn
Potentiometer
Ratio
Behavior
35. A robot is a machine that performs complicated tasks and is guided by automatic controls
Economics
Output
Rack and Pinion
Robot
36. In robotics - a tiny computer that acts as the robot's brain and contains the computer program
Ratio
Automation
Controller
Hydraulic
37. A sensor that detects physical contact and reports back to the controller whether its contact area is being pushed in or not
Work
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Belt and Pulley
Touch Sensor
38. One of a pair of gears used to connect two shafts whose axes intersect
Pitch
Hydraulic
Bevel Gear
Driven Gear
39. The ratio of the speed of the driving member of a gear train to that of the driven member
Sensor
Worm and wheel
Programmer
Gear Ratio
40. A balancing of factors - all of which are not attainable at the same time; giving up one thing in return for another
Trade- off
Automation
Automation
Threshold
41. A push or pull on an object
Force
Point Turn
Pneumatic
Automation
42. A touch sensor used to limit the motion of a moving device. Limit switches may be used to provide a precise beginning and end point to mechanical motion
Open -Loop System
Limit Switch
System
Economics
43. The member of a pair of gears to which motion and power are transmitted by the other. The output gear
System
Automation
While Loop
Driven Gear
44. A social science that deals with production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services
Controller
Economics
Oscillate
Invention
45. The gear which transmits power and motion to the rest of the system. The input gear
Output
Open -Loop System
Drive gear
Efficiency
46. Some factor that restricts the scope of activity or accomplishment
Driven Gear
Rack and Pinion
Limitation
Society
47. A toothed wheel that works with others to alter the relation between the speed of an engine and the speed of the driven parts
Pneumatic
Linear motion
Gear
Impact
48. A gear between the driver and the driven gear used to change rotational direction
Idler gear
Bevel Gear
Programmer
Invention
49. Technology dealing with the design - construction - and operation of robots and automation
Torque
Output
Robotics
Controller
50. In robotics - a series of coded instructions the robot must follow
Touch Sensor
Driven Gear
Computer Program
Gear