Robotics and Automated Systems Mid-term Exam

What is an automated system?

• An group of items that work together to complete a task.

• A mundane group of tasks to complete.

A technique that is used to make a process automatic.

• Automation 
• Efficiency 
• Flow Chart
• Feedback

The ability to bring a desired result with the least waste of time, energy, or material.

• Efficiency 
• Feedback 
• Automation 
• Computer Aided Manufacturing 

Try out a new procedure, idea, or activity.

• Efficiency 
• Automation 
• Flow Chart
• Experimentation 

Information fed into a system.

• Data
• Output
• Input
• Process

To function imperfectly or badly.

• Process
• Input
• Output
• Malfunction

The information produced by a computer.

• Process
• Input
• Output
• Signal

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).

• Switch 
• Sensor
• Signal 
• System

A device for making, breaking, or changing the connections in an electrical circuit.

• Switch
• Solar Cell
• Photocell
• Resistor 

A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal.

• System 
• Program 
• Data 
• Input