Crossword 33

2. Programmable wheeled robot usually moving over level surfaces.
6. The steepness of a slope/ for a flying object it is its rotation around the ‘side-to-side’ axis.
9. The science covering the laws governing the motion and application of liquids.
10. A device which makes something happen - such as a motor for movement or an emitter (of say light or ultrasound).
12. A servomechanism which includes a motor and associated sensors to enable its position or velocity to be controlled.
16. Selective compliant assembly robotic arm.
20. Rotation of an airplane around the ‘front-to-back’ axis.
24. Remote control of robot operation.
25. The speed at which an object is travelling and the direction in which it is travelling.
26. A form of logic which deals with approximate values, as opposed to logic signals which are true or false only.
27. A set of instructions which direct how a computer performs specific tasks.
28. One of many different devices which allow a human to interact with a machine.
30. A simple processing element in a brain – the human has billions of them.

1. Robot built from independent blocs.
3. trajectory of a robot end-effector or a mobile robot when performing a specific task.
4. a public place where you can use a computer, mobile phone, etc. with wi-fi
5. three dimensional degrees of freedom of an object in space.
7. The physical components of a computer.
8. Set of points through which robot passes during the tasks.
11. An automatic device which uses feedback control to determine its output.
13. Theory: As proposed by James Lovelock: Earth and the Life on it act together to influence the environment – such as its temperature.
14. A robotic mechanism typically comprising a series of fixed elements joined together at joints.
15. The size of the output of an element divided by its input – in a Proportional Controller.
17. How close measured values are to each other.
18. A computer program which tries to emulate the behaviour of something.
19. A branch of mathematics concerned with signals that can be only true or false, and which form the basis of modern computers.
21. A device which is used to measure a quantity – such as the distance to an object or the speed of a robot.
22. A power mechanism used to produce motion – either in a straight line or by rotating.
23. In Electronics it is a current/voltage/electromagnetic field used to convey information.
29. A phone that uses wireless network.