Safety & Careers
Automation & Ethics
Mechanical Kinematics Pt 1
Mechanical Kinematics Pt 2
Coding & Control Logic
Number Systems & Math
Teach Pendant & Operations
100
The exact score a student must achieve on the basic safety test before they are permitted to use any shop tools or equipment.
What is 100%?
100
Another term for drones, these devices are a central talking point regarding the political and military ethics of automation.
What are UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)?
100
This mechanical rate of change measures the straight-line distance between a robot's starting position and ending position over time, ignoring the total path traveled.
What is velocity?
100
The formula for MA of a gear system.
What is # output teeth / # input teeth (or output radius / input radius)?
100
When planning a safe motion path using a flowchart, code must explicitly define safe points and these other coordinates designed to keep the robot safe from hitting obstacles in the work space.
What are approach positions?
100
The two base numbering systems that form the foundation of most human counting (you must know the names and bases)
What are the decimal system (base 10) and unary system (base 1)?
100
These three primary orientations define the rotational axes of an industrial manipulator arm.
What are Yaw, Pitch, and Roll?
200
This specific engineering discipline impacts the robotics industry alongside mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, and computer science.
What is Electrical Engineering?
200
Beyond increasing production speed, factories implement robotics to drastically improve this specific condition for human workers.
What is manufacturing safety?
200
To properly analyze a robot's physical motions, a technician must calculate distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and this rate of velocity change.
What is acceleration?
200
The formula for MA of a lever system.
What is Input arm length / Output arm length?
200
This visual program-planning method uses standard geometric symbols to map out logic paths before writing code.
What is flow charting?
200
The possible symbols for each digit in Binary, Octal, Decimal, and Hexadecimal?
What is 0-1, 0-7, 0-9, 0-9 & A-F?
200
This fundamental physical rule dictates how a 6-axis industrial robot calculates its positive and negative linear directions.
What is the right hand rule?
300
Personal protective equipment (PPE) must always be selected and utilized in strict accordance with these guidelines.
What are manufacturer rules and regulations?
300
Name the 4 Ds of Robotics.
What are Dull, Difficult, Dangerous, and Dirty?
300
Renaissance scientists defined these six simple machines.
What are levers, pulleys, wheel and axles, inclined planes, wedges, and screws?
300
This rotational mechanical rate measures the angular displacement an arm or wheel travels per unit of time.
What is angular velocity?
300
These specific programming commands are deliberately written into a program to temporarily halt execution for a set duration.
What are delay or pause commands?
300
The binary, octal, and hex versions of 0d39.
(half points for each correct answer, up to 1.5x the advertised point value of this question)
What is 0b100111, 0o47, 0x27?
300
When programming paths, a technician creates and verifies motion using Joint, Circular, Linear, and this curved motion type.
What is Spline motion?
400
This specific workplace role is primarily responsible for running robotic systems day-to-day, separate from maintenance technicians or controls engineers.
What is an Operator?
400
Name 2 cons of automation.
Answers vary
400
Describe how each class of lever changes force, speed, and direction.
What is Class 2 multiplies force, Class 3 multiplies speed, and Class 1 can do either but changes direction?
400
Calculate the MA of this system (assuming the green gear is the input gear)
What is 3?
400
This programming structure allows a developer to call and execute a common section of code repeatedly without writing the lines over again.
What is a subroutine (or function)?
400
The octal, decimal, and hex value of 0b01110011.
(half points for each correct answer, up to 1.5x the advertised point value of this question)
What is 0o163, 0d115, and 0x73?
400
This is the absolute origin configuration of an industrial manipulator, which requires mastering and re-mastering to keep accurate.
What is the home position?
500
These are the four distinct technical career pathways in the automation industry, ranging from day-to-day operation to system design.
What are Operators, Maintenance Technicians, Controls Technicians, and Controls Engineers?
500
Name 3 pros of Automation.
Answers vary.
500
Calculate the MA of this system:
What is 4?
500
Calculate the mechanical advantage of this system:
What is 3?
500
These are the four standard variable types identified in the curriculum to handle numbers, decimals, text, and true/false logic.
What are integer, float, string, and boolean?
500
The binary, decimal, and hex value of 0o7241.
(half points for each correct answer, up to 1.5x the advertised point value of this question)
What is 0b111010100001, 0d3745, and 0xEA1?
500
Describe how we define which direction is positive on an X, Y, Z axis, and how we define positive rotation around those 3 axes. (Don't name which axis or rotation is which as part of your answer, phrase your answer in terms of the RHR)
With the RHR (right hand rule), your fingers point in the direction of positive movement along the 3 axis. If you make a thumbs-up with your right hand and point in the positive direction of the axis you're rotating around, positive rotation is in the same direction as the curl of your other fingers.
600
This is widely considered the very first hands-on task a robotics student will execute upon entering the industrial workforce.
What is preventative maintenance (PM)?
600
Name someone who could be held responsible for a robot harming a human.
Answers vary
600
Calculate the MA of this system (assuming the purple gear is the input gear)
What is 1/3?
600
Calculate the MA of this system:
What is 8?
600
This mathematical operation involves shifting an entire set of Cartesian points by adding or subtracting an independent set of X, Y, Z points.
What is geometric translation (or offsetting)?
600
The binary, octal, and decimal value of 0xA9F.
(half points for each correct answer, up to 1.5x the advertised point value of this question)
What is 0b101010011111, 0o5237, and 0d2719?
600
The 3 cartesian axes labels, as well as the rotations around each axis. Do NOT describe positive/negative movement or rotation as part of your answer.
(1/2 points for each axis-rotation pair, up to 1.5x the point value of this question)
What are X (Yaw), Y (Pitch), and Z (Roll)?