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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 connected flexible series of links used for fastening or securing objects and pulling or supporting loads
Pitch
Flexible Manufacturing System
Programmer
Chain
2. Pertaining to or operated by air or other gas
Drive gear
Pneumatic
Controller
Gear
3. The process of locating trouble and making repairs in machinery and technical equipment
Computer Aided Manufacturing
Troubleshoot
Energy
Robotics
4. Containing - producing - arising from - or actuated by electricity
Digital Signal
Malfunction
Electric
Algorithm
5. An improvement of an existing technological product - system - or method of doing something
Efficiency
Innovation
Digital Signal
Programmer
6. Try our a new procedure - idea - or activity
Algorithm
Automation
Experimentation
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
7. A twisting force
Invention
Gear
Torque
Potentiometer
8. Anything your robot does; turning no a motor is a behavior - following a line is a behavior - navigating a maze is a behavior
Behavior
Force
Worm and wheel
Ratio
9. Circular movement
Invention
Rotary Motion
Controller
Ethical
10. A turn where one wheel rotates forward and the other rotates backward - causing the robot to sit and spin in place
Touch Sensor
Point Turn
Software...
Behavior
11. A group of interacting - interrelated - or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a common goal
Automation
Automation
Program
System
12. To function imperfectly or badly
Crank and Slider
Gear
Malfunction
Pneumatic
13. A control system that has no means for comparing the output with input for control purposes. An open - loop system often requires human intervention
Open -Loop System
Behavior
Sensor
Touch Sensor
14. Conforming to a established set principles or accepted professional standards or conduct
Linear motion
Pitch
System
Ethical
15. The ability to bring a desired result with the least waste of time - energy - or material
Output
Gear
Efficiency
Open -Loop System
16. A gear between the driver and the driven gear used to change rotational direction
Idler gear
Robotics
Limit Switch
Power Supply
17. The ratio of the speed of the driving member of a gear train to that of the driven member
Gear Ratio
Software...
Sprocket
While Loop
18. A back and forth movement
Impact
Reciprocating
Computer Aided Manufacturing
Potentiometer
19. A building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing or producing goods
Swing Turn
While Loop
Force
Factory
20. A signal having the characteristic of being continuous and changing smoothly over a given range - rather than switching suddenly between certain levels.
Output
Potentiometer
Pitch
Analog Signal
21. The process of detecting and eliminating a device's malfunctions
Flexible Manufacturing System
Pseudocode
Debug
Software...
22. The ability to do work
Energy
Threshold
Sprocket
Touch Sensor
23. Opposite in position - direction - order - or effect
Inverse
Electric
While Loop
Crank and Slider
24. A push or pull on an object
Point Turn
Automation
Force
Pitch
25. The information produced by a computer
Gear Ratio
Output
Rotary Motion
Work
26. Some factor that restricts the scope of activity or accomplishment
Idler gear
Energy
Limitation
Chain
27. A swing back and forth at a regular rate
Ratio
Automation
Oscillate
Debug
28. The application of force that moves an object a certain distance
Idler gear
Work
Sensor
Programmer
29. A sensor that detects physical contact and reports back to the controller whether its contact area is being pushed in or not
Programmer
Factory
Controller
Touch Sensor
30. A level or point at which something would start or cease to happen or come into effect
Threshold
Crank and Slider
Reprogram
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
31. The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other
Maintenance
Limit Switch
Input
Ratio
32. Movement in a straight line
Linear motion
Maintenance
Reciprocating
Digital Signal
33. Something put into a system - such as resources - in order to achieve a result
Bevel Gear
Feedback
Input
Automation
34. In robotics - a tiny computer that acts as the robot's brain and contains the computer program
Simple gear train
Controller
Chain
Inverse
35. A control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly
Electric
While Loop
Automation
Comments
36. Using computers to operate and control machines and processes to manufacture a product
Troubleshoot
Malfunction
Computer Aided Manufacturing
Factory
37. A company- wide management philosophy for planning - integration - and implementation of automation
Computer Program
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Linear motion
Software...
38. An arm- like mechanism on a robotic system which grabs and moves objects with a number of degrees of freedom under automatic control.
Rotary Motion
Hydraulic
Output
Manipulators
39. A turn where one wheel rotates and the other stays in place - causing the robot's body to 'swing around the stationary wheel
Sensor
Limitation
Output
Swing Turn
40. The gear which transmits power and motion to the rest of the system. The input gear
Touch Sensor
Drive gear
Pitch
Behavior
41. In robotics - provides power to the robot; may supply electricity - hydraulic - power - or pneumatic power
Power Supply
Sprocket
Limitation
Workforce
42. A community - nation - or broad grouping of people having common traditions - institutions - and collective activities and interests
Trade- off
Analog Signal
Controller
Society
43. A mechanical arrangement consisting of a toothed wheel driven by a short revolving cylinder bearing a screw thread
Worm and wheel
Inverse
Gear Ratio
Economics
44. A balancing of factors - all of which are not attainable at the same time; giving up one thing in return for another
Trade- off
Chain
Point Turn
Simple gear train
45. A pivot pin near the outside edge of a wheel or disk that changes rotary motion into reciprocating motion.
Crank and Slider
Workforce
Troubleshoot
Innovation
46. A robot is a machine that performs complicated tasks and is guided by automatic controls
Linear motion
Input
Troubleshoot
Robot
47. Shorthand notation for programming which uses a combination of informal programming structures and verbal descriptions of a code.
Sensor
Pseudocode
Robot
Gear Ratio
48. One of a pair of gears used to connect two shafts whose axes intersect
Society
Bevel Gear
Sensor
Troubleshoot
49. 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.
Power Supply
Comments
Computer Aided Manufacturing
While Loop
50. Information fed into a system
Input
Linear motion
Analog Signal
Worm and wheel