Automation and Robotics – Grade 8
Students trace the history, development, and influence of automation and robotics. They learn about mechanical systems, energy transfer, machine automation and computer control systems. Students acquire knowledge and skills in problem solving, teamwork collaboration, innovation, and programming.
Automation and Robotics Course Syllabus and Overview
Over the course of the semester, we will be studying a variety of topics in this room. Hopefully, we can all look forward to a fun-filled year of experimenting, observing, and studying the world around us. it WE will be learning by DOING THINGS hands-on.
Overview of the Semester:
Quarter 1 What Is Automation and Robotics?
Mechanical Systems
Quarter 2 Mechanical Systems
Automated Systems
Emergency Lesson Plans
Eighth Grade – Automation and Robotics – 2nd and 5th blocks
Using their CHROMEBOOKS, Students should access Mr. Grimm’s web page at mrgrimmcrestdale.weebly.com or via the Crestdale website, to get emergency assignments as noted below.
Day 1-2 – Students should research and write a more than one page essay. The essay should be 12 point font, Times New Roman, and double spaced.
Essay should be about What limitations do you think should be placed on the use of robots?
Day 3-4 – Students should research and write a more than one page essay. The essay should be 12 point font, Times New Roman, and double spaced.
Essay should be about What impact do you think robots will have on your life in 10 years and in 50 years?
Day 5-6 – Students should research and write a more than one page essay. The essay should be 12 point font, Times New Roman, and double spaced.
Essay should be about Where are mechanisms used in real-life applications and what is their purpose?.
Day 7-8 – Students should research and write a more than one page essay. The essay should be 12 point font, Times New Roman, and double spaced.
Essay should be about What are the advantages and disadvantages of automation?.
Study Guide for EOC
1. A step-by-step procedure for solving a problem, especially by a computer.
Algorithm
2. Conforming to an established set of principles or accepted professional standards of conduct.
Ethical
3. A person who writes and tests computer programs.
Programmer
4. The use of technology to ease human labor or to extend the mental or physical capabilities of humans.
Automation
5. The transmission of power between shafts by means of a belt connecting pulleys on the shafts.
Belt and pulley
6. A toothed wheel that works with others to alter the relation between the speed of an engine and the speed of the driven parts.
Gear
7. The distance between adjacent threads in a screw.
Pitch
8. A twisting force.
Torque
9. The ability to do work.
Energy
10. A signal having the characteristic of being continuous and changing smoothly over a given range, rather than switching suddenly between certain levels.
Analog Signal
11. Try out a new procedure, idea, or activity.
Experimentation
12. The information produced by a computer.
Output
13. A level or point at which something would start or cease to happen or come into effect.
Threshold
14. A company-wide management philosophy for planning, integration, and implementation of automation.
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
15. Operated by the action of water or other fluids.
Hydraulic
16. A robot is a machine that performs complicated tasks and is guided by automatic controls.
Robot
17. In robotics, a set of coded instructions the robot must follow.
Computer program
18. One of a pair of gears used to connect two shafts whose axes intersect.
Bevel gear
19. A gear between the driver and the driven gear used to change rotational direction.
Idler gear
20. The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other.
Ratio
21. A connected flexible series of links used for fastening or securing objects and pulling or supporting loads.
Chain
22. The ability to bring a desired result with the least waste of time, energy, or material.
Efficiency
23. A control system that has no means for comparing the output with input for control purposes. An open-loop system often requires human intervention.
Open-Loop System
24. A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal.
System
25. Using computers to operate and control machines and processes to manufacture a product.
Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
26. A building or set of buildings with facilities for manufacturing or producing goods.
Factory
27. The rewriting or revising of a sequence of instructions, especially a computer program.
Reprogram
28. In robotics, a tiny computer that acts as the robot’s brain and contains the computer program.
Controller
29. The ratio of the speed of the driving member of a gear train to that of the driven member.
Gear ratio
30. A rotating gear that meshes with a bar that has gear teeth along its length. Changes rotating motion into linear motion.
Rack and pinion
31. A pivot pin near the outside edge of a wheel or disk that changes rotary motion into reciprocating motion.
Crank and slider
32. Opposite in position, direction, order, or effect.
Inverse
33. Circular movement.
Rotary motion
34. The gear which transmits power and motion to the rest of the system. The input gear.
Drive gear
35. Technology dealing with the design, construction, and operation of robots in automation.
Robotics
36. Movement in a straight line.
Linear motion
37. A combination of two or more gears used to transmit motion between two rotating shafts or between a shaft and a slide.
Simple gear train
38. An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something.
Innovation
39. A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation.
Invention