Robotics MCQ

What is the purpose of a speed reducer?

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Correct Answer: To convert high speed low torque to low speed high torque

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What does a speed reducer convert?

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Correct Answer: High speed low torque to low speed high torque

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During downtime, a robot or production line is shut down due to what?

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Correct Answer: Malfunction or failure

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What is a period of time in which a robot or production line is shut down?

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Correct Answer: Downtime

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What kind of linkage is direct-drive?

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Correct Answer: Joint actuation

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What is the link bolted onto?

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Correct Answer: The output of the motor

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What are 3 of the 6 degrees of freedom needed for an end effector?

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Correct Answer: Position

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How many degrees of freedom are needed to properly describe the movement of a robot?

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Correct Answer: 6

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What type of switch stops the flow of power to the device when there is a problem?

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Correct Answer: Dead

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What term describes a system that automatically shuts down a piece of machinery or electronics in case of a power failure?

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Correct Answer: Dead Man Switch

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What type of Topology does the arm follow?

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Correct Answer: Cylindrical

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In what type of Topology is the arm fixed to a horizontal circle?

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Correct Answer: Cylindrical Topology

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What is a generic term for a speed reduction device that converts high speed low torque to low speed high torque?

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Correct Answer: Cyclo Drive

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What defines the position of any point in terms of an angular dimension, a radial dimension, and a height from a reference plane?

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Correct Answer: Cyclic Coordinate System

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What are the moves and functions that are contained in a single cycle of a program?

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Correct Answer: Cycle A single execution of a complete set of moves and functions contained within a robot program

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What is a cycle of an algorithm?

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Correct Answer: A single execution of a complete set of moves and functions contained within a robot program

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A single execution of a complete set of moves and functions contained within a robot program is called what?

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Correct Answer: Cycle A single execution of a complete set of moves and functions contained within a robot program.

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The area is a rectangular parallelepiped, which is parallel to what?

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Correct Answer: Base coordinate

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What is the name of the rectangular parallelepiped that is parallel to the base coordinate, robot coordinate or user coordinate?

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Correct Answer: Cubic Interference Area

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Along with processors, what is an electrical device that is commonly used to process information?

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Correct Answer: Central Processing Unit

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What is the main circuit board and processor of the Controller System?

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Correct Answer: The Central Processing Unit

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What type of robot uses a Coordinate System?

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Correct Answer: Yaskawa

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What type of computer does the robot control mechanism contain?

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Correct Answer: Some type

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What do we use to store the robot and the work environment?

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Correct Answer: The Controller System

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The work environment is stored in the computer along with?

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Correct Answer: Data

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What are the inputs to a controller?

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Correct Answer: Desired and measured position, velocity or other pertinent variables

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What are the outputs of a controller?

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Correct Answer: Drive signals

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Control of what can be measured by the controllability?

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Correct Answer: System

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What property of a system allows a control input signal to take the system from an initial state to a desired state?

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Correct Answer: Controllability

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What does the word "Control Mode" mean?

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Correct Answer: The means by which instructions are communicated to the robot

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What is the means of communicating instructions to the robot?

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Correct Answer: Control Mode

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Emergency-stop button, selector switch, or start button constitutes a what?

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Correct Answer: Control Device

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What are some examples of control devices?

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Correct Answer: Emergency-stop button, a start button, or a selector switch

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What is the name of the human-to-machine input device?

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Correct Answer: Pendant

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What is the name given to the set of instructions given to the robot by the user?

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Correct Answer: Command

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What is the monitor used to detect trajectory deviations?

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Correct Answer: Control Algorithm

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What does Monitor Algorithm compute for the actuators?

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Correct Answer: Torque applications

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What type of movement is most important with a Continuous Path system?

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Correct Answer: Smooth movement

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What process describes the process where a robot is controlled over the entire path traversed?

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Correct Answer: Continuous Path

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What type of sensing is used to determine location, identity, and orientation?

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Correct Answer: Contact Sensor

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Compliance with external forces can be minimized by what type of modification?

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Correct Answer: Modifying its motions

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How much a manipulator moves when it's stressed?

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Correct Answer: A good bit

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What does low compliance mean?

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Correct Answer: A stiff system when stressed

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What are the parts of a command?

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Correct Answer: Parsed

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What is a collaborative robot designed to operate in?

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Correct Answer: One or more of the four collaborative modes

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What is used to describe a robot system designed to operate in one or more of the four collaborative modes?

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Correct Answer: Collaborative Robot

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What are the sensors that are used to feed back information about the manipulator's placement?

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Correct Answer: Many

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Which type of feedback allows a robot to control its movement?

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Correct Answer: Closed-loop

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What force could cause a body part to be clamped?

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Correct Answer: Clamping Force

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What can cause a body part to be clamped?

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Correct Answer: Contact

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What does the term "clamping" refer to in this context?

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Correct Answer: The maximum permissible force acting on a body region

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What type of deformation does "clamping" result in?

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Correct Answer: Plastic

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What is the maximum force allowed to be placed on a person's body region from a robot collision?

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Correct Answer: Clamping

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What do the feed-back sensors help the clamp to do?

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Correct Answer: Manage the applied force to the object by the clamp

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What type of sensors are used to manage the applied force to the object by the clamp?

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Correct Answer: Tactile

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What is used to manage the applied force to the object by the clamp?

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Correct Answer: Tactile, and feed-back force sensors

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What type of motion describes a calculated path that the robot executes?

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Correct Answer: Circular Motion Type A

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What does the term centrifugal force mean?

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Correct Answer: Outward radial force

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What is the outward radial force that is applied to an axis when the body rotates around it?

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Correct Answer: Centrifugal force

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What are a Cartesian-coordinate Robot's degrees of freedom?

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Correct Answer: Manipulator-arm

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What does the term 'Cartesian Topology' refer to?

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Correct Answer: A topology

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A topology that uses joints that are arranged perpendicular to each other is called what?

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Correct Answer: Cartesian Topology

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What type of joints does a Cartesian Manipulator have?

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Correct Answer: Prismatic

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A Cartesian Manipulator allows movement along one or more of the three- what?

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Correct Answer: Axes

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What does Cartesian Coordinates represent?

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Correct Answer: A two dimensional Cartesian coordinate System

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What are the names of the perpendicular axes in a Cartesian coordinate system?

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Correct Answer: Fixed axes

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A rotating platform that delivers objects to a robot and serves as an object queuing system is called what?

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Correct Answer: Carousel

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What is Computer Aided Design?

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Correct Answer: Computer graphic applications

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What type of application allows you to design schematics and produce blueprints?

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Correct Answer: Computer Aided Design

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What do CAD systems typically allow for engineering?

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Correct Answer: Objects

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What type of application is Computer Aided Design?

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Correct Answer: Computer graphic applications

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For what purpose is the burn-in test performed?

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Correct Answer: To test movement and movement programming

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What is the process of operating all components of the robot over an extended period of time?

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Correct Answer: Burn-in

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What is the base structure of a robot arm?

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Correct Answer: The stationary base structure of a robot arm

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What are the stationary base structures of robotic arms?

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Correct Answer: Base Link

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What does the base structure of a robot arm support?

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Correct Answer: First joint

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What does the Base Coordinate System do?

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Correct Answer: Defines a common reference point

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What does the Base Coordinate System define in a cell or application?

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Correct Answer: A common reference point

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What is the Base Coordinate System sometimes referred to as?

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Correct Answer: World Coordinate System

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To what are industrial robotic arm are most often attached?

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Correct Answer: Stable platform

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What is the base of an industrial robotic arm?

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Correct Answer: The stable platform

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What kind of signal does the Axis Interference Area output?

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Correct Answer: A signal based on whether the current position is within a predefined range

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As used in this standard, what type of mode does the A direction specify?

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Correct Answer: Linear or rotary

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What direction specifies the motion of the robot in a linear or rotary mode?

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Correct Answer: Axis A

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What is the ISO code for Axis A?

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Correct Answer: 8373

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What can the end-effector properties be derived from?

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Correct Answer: A CAD model of the tool

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What is an alternative to a CAD model?

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Correct Answer: Automatic Measurement Function

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What is a good example of a manufacturer using an assembly robot?

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Correct Answer: Assembly line production

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What type of articulation allows a robot to reach into confined spaces?

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Correct Answer: Jointed

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What is a device that articulates?

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Correct Answer: Jointed manipulator

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What is used to describe a jointed device?

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Correct Answer: Articulation

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An articulated manipulator allows what type of motion?

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Correct Answer: Translation and rotary motion

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What is the term for a manipulator with an arm that is broken into sections?

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Correct Answer: Articulated Manipulator

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What does the arm itself not include?

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Correct Answer: End-effector

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What is used to effect motion or maintain position of the robot?

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Correct Answer: Actuator

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A power mechanism used to effect motion, or maintain position of the robot, the actuator responds to a signal from what system?

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Correct Answer: Control system

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The actuator responds to what?

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Correct Answer: A signal

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The actual position is not the demand position because of what?

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Correct Answer: Unsensed errors

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What is the actual position of a control point?

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Correct Answer: The position or location

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What is an active compliant robot?

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Correct Answer: One in which motion modification during the performance of a task is initiated by the control system

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Accuracy is a measurement of what?

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Correct Answer: The deviation between the command characteristic and the attained characteristic

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What is the measurement of the deviation between the command characteristic and the attained characteristic?

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Correct Answer: Accuracy

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What value does ABSO Data set to zero?

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Correct Answer: Home

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What does ABSO Data do?

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Correct Answer: Establishes an indicated value of zero when the robot is at the predetermined Home

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ABSO Data adjusts the indicated value of zero when the robot is at the HOME position, what's its name?

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Correct Answer: Absolute Data

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