Automation and Robotics Vocabulary

Define Articulate

• Able to understand somewhat

• Able to understand clearly

• Not being able to understand at all

• I don't even speak this language

Define Belt and Pulley

• The transmission of power between shafts by means of a belt connecting pulleys on the shafts.

• One of a pair of gears used to connect two shafts whose axes intersect.

• A gear between the driver and the driven gear used to change rotational direction.

• rotating gear that meshes with a bar that has gear teeth along its length. Changes rotating motion into linear motion.

Define Bevel gear

• The transmission of power between shafts by means of a belt connecting pulleys on the shafts.

• One of a pair of gears used to connect two shafts whose axes intersect.

• A pear-shaped disk with an off-center pivot point, used to change rotating motion into reciprocating motion.

• A pivot pin near the outside edge of a wheel or disk that changes reciprocating motion into rotary motion.

Define Chain

• A series of events caused by the one before it

• A mechanism in which power is transmitted from an engine to the wheels of a vehicle by means of a moving endless chain.

• A connected flexible series of metal links used for fastening or securing objects and pulling or supporting loads.

Define Crank and Slider

• A pear-shaped disk with an off-center pivot point, used to change rotating motion into reciprocating motion.

• A pivot pin near the outside edge of a wheel or disk that changes reciprocating motion into rotary motion.

• A small cogwheel (pinion gear) that engages or is engaged by a larger cogwheel (crown gear).

• A gear between the driver and the driven gear used to change rotational direction.

Define Drive gear

• The member of a pair of gears to which motion and power are transmitted by the other. The output gear.

• The gear which transmits power and motion to the rest of the system. The input gear.

Define Driven gear

• The member of a pair of gears to which motion and power are transmitted by the other. The output gear.

• The gear which transmits power and motion to the rest of the system. The input gear.

Define Energy

• A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.

  Engineering

• Using technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.

• The ability to do work.

Define Force

• The process by which passengers or goods are moved or delivered from one place to another.

• A push or pull on an object.

• A twisting force.

• A device that responds to a physical stimulus (as heat, light, sound, pressure, magnetism, or a particular motion) and transmits a resulting impulse (as for measurement or operating a control).

Define Input

• Information fed into a system.

• Opposite in position, direction, order or effect.

• The information produced by a computer.