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This document contains a revision toolkit on various topics related to computer aided design, virtual reality systems, monitoring and control, and embedded web technology. It provides questions and answers on each topic. For computer aided design, it discusses features of CAD packages and advantages of using CAD to design toys. For virtual reality, it defines virtual reality and describes how images are created and features of a virtual hotel tour website. It also lists applications of virtual reality. For monitoring and intruder detection systems, it describes how sensors and microprocessors interact to detect intruders. It distinguishes between monitoring and control applications. Finally, it discusses problems robots may encounter in manufacturing and advantages of using robots over humans.

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Revision Toolkit - Topic by Topic For Mwengu: Topics

This document contains a revision toolkit on various topics related to computer aided design, virtual reality systems, monitoring and control, and embedded web technology. It provides questions and answers on each topic. For computer aided design, it discusses features of CAD packages and advantages of using CAD to design toys. For virtual reality, it defines virtual reality and describes how images are created and features of a virtual hotel tour website. It also lists applications of virtual reality. For monitoring and intruder detection systems, it describes how sensors and microprocessors interact to detect intruders. It distinguishes between monitoring and control applications. Finally, it discusses problems robots may encounter in manufacturing and advantages of using robots over humans.

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Revision Toolkit – Topic by topic for Mwengu

Topics
Computer aided design, Virtual reality systems, Monitoring and control,
Embedded web technology

1. (a) Give three features you would expect to see in a typical Computer Aided
Design (CAD) package.
(b) A company uses CAD to design a child’s toy. Give two advantages of
using CAD in this application.
2. (a) What is meant by virtual reality?
(b) A hotel decides to offer a virtual tour of its facilities on a web site.
(i) Describe how images are created and processed for use in the virtual
tour.
(ii) What features would you expect to see on the virtual tour web site?
(c) Give two other applications of virtual reality.

3. (a) A large house with eight bed rooms is to be protected by an intruder


surveillance system (burglar alarm).
Describe how sensors and a microprocessor would interact to monitor
for intruders and sound an alarm if a break in occurs.
(b) Describe the main differences between a computer being used in a
monitoring application and a computer used in a control application.

4. Robots are being used to spray some metal parts.


(a) Describe two problems the robot might encounter and how these could
be overcome.
(b) In general, what are the advantages of using robots rather than human
workers in manufacturing industries?

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Answers

1(a) The features found in a typical CAD package include:


- wire frame
- 2D and 3D modelling
- library of parts which can be used in new drawings
- validation and verification of designs against original specification
- ability to link with computer-aided manufacture (CAM)
- facility to calculate the mass of the actual object once built
- facility to calculate the cost of producing the article
- features such as rotation, colour, zoom, etc.
- simulation of designs without the need to build a prototype
- create engineering drawings from solid models
- import and export to allow the exchange of data with other software packages
- kinematics (i.e. check moving parts in assemblies don’t interfere with each
other)
- routing of cables and hoses

(b) Any of the following advantages could be quoted:


- easier to modify drawings of the toy
- toy can be built up from library of parts
- possible to cost final toy automatically
- easy to try colour variations etc.

2(a) Definition points:


- artificial 3D environment …..
- ….. created by a computer
- users wear data goggles, data helmets, data gloves or suits fitted with sensors
- devices monitor user actions (e.g. data goggles track eye movement and
system responds by sending new video input)

(b) (i) Stages in the creation of images


- takes photos with a digital camera
- photos taken from a single, reference point
- camera rotated around the room as a number of photos taken

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- images “stitched” together using imaging software
- photo images re-sized and re-configured for Internet use
(ii) Expected features:
- hot spots on web page to allow user to move around the hotel
- plans and maps integrated to allow user to navigate the hotel
- ability to move from room to room to navigate whole hotel

(c) There are many applications; examples include:


- special effects on films/television
- arcade games
- training (military, medical, etc.)
- design (e.g. nuclear and chemical plants

3(a) Interaction between sensors and microprocessor:

(b) Differences between monitoring and control:


Monitoring: - computer system takes information from the sensors
compares the data with stored values
- warns/informs the user of status either by read outs or alarms
Control: - computer system takes information from the sensors
- compares the data with stored values

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- sends signals to devices to open/close, on/off etc.
- output from system can affect next input
4(a) Problems associated with robotics:
- out of paint (sensors in paint reservoir to indicate low paint levels)
- something in path of robot (sensors used to detect presence of an object)
- is item in correct position (sensors to ensure item present and in position)
- is item present (as above)
(b) Advantages of using robots rather than humans:
- they can work in conditions hazardous to humans
- robots don’t need breaks (capable of working non-stop)
- they are less expensive in the long run since don’t need any wages
- more productive (do same task faster than a human being)
- work is of a more consistent standard
- removes need for a human to do boring, repetitive tasks

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