Automated Systems

4. Engineer who designs the electrical components used in a solution, including sensor selections and wiring configurations.
7. A set of materials, electronic or structural, that have been combined together to act as a single component and that form part of a larger assembly.
10. The process of manufacturing goods in a pre-determined sequence using robots to complete the tasks.
14. The full assembly line is made up of smaller workcells that each complete a specific task. They are connected to each other with a transfer system, such as a conveyor belt.
15. In robotics, a set of coded instructions the robot must follow.
16. An expression that evaluates to true or false.
19. A block-based interface that uses drag and drop chunks of code to create a program for VEX robots.
20. A freehand drawing that shows a design solution idea and communicates details about the design intent.
21. A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal.
22. A set of instructions that a computer executes to achieve a particular objective.
23. A computer interface that represents a set of instructions with text.
24. An input device that can only send one of two possible signals to a processor (brain of the robot): 1 or 0, also referred to as True or False.
25. A person who writes and tests computer programs.

1. A system that uses feedback from the output to control the input.
2. A device that sends information or signals into a computer system (such as a robot.)
3. A drag-and-drop programming environment where code blocks snap together to form a program.
5. Engineer who designs and develops the program that automates the solution.
6. The process of making a raw material into a finished product; especially in large quantities.
8. Anything your robot does; turning on a motor, following a line, navigating a maze.
9. Engineer who designs and builds the mechanisms used in a solution, including gear ratios and other hardware selections.
11. A type of data in computing that a logical expression evaluates to. The only possible values are True and False.
12. An input device that can send a wide range of signals to a processor (brain of the robot). The signal values represent a physical stimulus (such as heat, light, sound, pressure, and distance).
13. Shorthand notation for programming which uses a combination of informal programming structures and verbal descriptions of code.
17. A device that receives information or signals from a computer system (such as a robot.)
18. A control system that has no means for comparing the output with input for control purposes. Often requires human intervention.