NPTEL Advanced Robotics Week 1 Assignment Answers 2025

NPTEL Advanced Robotics Week 1 Assignment Answers 2025

1. The writer who used the word ‘robotics’ was

  • Al-Jazari
  • Satoshi Shegemi
  • Ichiro Kato
  • Isaac Asimov

Answer :- d

2. Industry 4.0 deals with

  • Cyber Physical Systems that interconnect machines and machines
  • Development of AI
  • Cyber Physical Systems that interconnect machines, humans and AI.
  • Brain computer interfacing

Answer :- c

3. To be called a robot a system should do some or all of the following:

  • Interact with the environment
  • Re programmable
  • Move around, sense the environment and display intelligent behaviour
  • Follow human’s instructions

Answer :- 

4. The Degree of Freedom of the prismatic and spherical joints are respectively

  • 1 and 3
  • 3 and 1
  • 1 and 2
  • 2 and 1

Answer :- 

5. A cylinder is kept on a table on its base. How many degrees of freedom are required by a robot to pick up the cylinder and keep it at another place on the table on its base (flat surface of cylinder is parallel to table surface)?

  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Answer :- 

6. The work volume of a cartesian robot having four prismatic joints of unequal length is a:

  • Sphere
  • Cube
  • Cuboid
  • Ellipsoid

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7. The position of a point is represented by three coordinates (x,y,z) while orientation of a rigid body is represented by a

  • a position vector and an angle
  • a position vector
  • 4 x 4 matrix
  • 3 x 3 matrix

Answer :- 

8. Determinant of a rotation matrix is equal to

  • -1
  • 1
  • 0.5
  • 0

Answer :- 

9. A frame ‘B’ is rotated by 60o about Z axis of a fixed frame ‘A’. If the coordinate of a point ‘P’ in ‘B’ is given by BP =(1, 1, 1), find its coordinate in frame ‘A’, AP = ?

  • (0.36, 1.36, 1)
  • (-0.36, -1.36, 1)
  • (0.36, -1.36, 1)
  • (-0.36, 1.36, 1)

Answer :- 

10. A frame ‘B’ is rotated by 60o about X axis of a fixed frame ‘A’ and translated by (1,1,1) units in x,y,z direction of ‘A’. If the coordinate of a point BP=(2, 2, 2) find AP?

  • (3, 0.26, 3.73)
  • (3, -0.26, 3.73)
  • (3, 0.26, -3.73)
  • (-3, 0.26, 3.73)

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