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Acronyms Used by FIRST

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Most of these acronyms were curated from various posts on Chief Delphi, with others from the game manual.

General Acronyms
​FIRST  - For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
AM - AndyMark, a business started by Andy Baker and Mark Koors in 2004.
BAE - BAE Systems - sponsor
BB -  BaneBots - provide compliant wheels and other parts
BOM/CAW - Bill Of Materials/Cost Accounting Worksheet
CAD - Computer Aided Design - SolidWorks, Autodesk, etc.
CAM - Computer Aided Manufacturing

CCL - Chiaphua Components Limited, which is the conglomerate that owns CIM.
CD - Chief Delphi - a very useful forum for robotics
CMU Cam - Carnegie-Mellon University [developed] Camera)
COTS - Commercial Off the Shelf - parts you can buy locally and from vendors
CTRE - Cross the Road Electronics, a supplier of control system parts
DCMP - District Championship (only in districts)

DK - Dean Kamen
EI - Engineering Inspiration - an award
EM - pronounced “eem” - could also be a member of NEMO - an engineering mentor
FGC - FIRST Global Challenge

FLL - FIRST Lego League
FRC - FIRST Robotics Competition
FSM - FIRST Senior Mentor
FSP - FIRST Scholarship Opportunity
FTC - FIRST Tech Challenge
FUN - FIRST Updates Now
GDC - game design committee - comes up with the games each year
GP - Gracious Professionalism
HOF - Hall of Fame - teams who won the Championship Impact Award
HQ - Headquarters located in Manchester, NH
IFI - Innovation FIRST Inc., who supplies the control system
KISS - keep it simple, silly
KOP - Kit of Parts - includes optional drivebase kit, optional grey tote, and season specific box
Manch-Vegas - Home of FIRST HQ; Manchester New Hampshire.
McMC - McMaster-Carr - supplier of parts
MS - Microsoft
​NEMO - Non engineering mentor

NI - National Instruments - company who provides software and parts
OA - Open Alliance (Special CD threads to share info)
OP - Original Poster, in relation to CD posts

P^7 - Proper Prior Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance
PDP - Program Delivery Partner - FIRST in Alabama

Q&A - the official question and answer forums
RAP = NASA Robotics Alliance Project
RCA - Regional Chairman’s Award, now called the FIRST Impact Award
RCR - Rocket City Regional

RD - Regional Director - associated with the PDP
REV - REV Robotics, founded by Greg Needel and David Yanoshak in 2014
Ri3D - Robot in 3 Days - groups that build a robot within 3 days of kickoff
RTFM or RTFD - read the FIRST (game) manual/documentation
SDS - Swerve Drive Specialties - vendor for robot parts
STEM or STEAM - Science Technology Engineering Arts Math

TBA - The Blue Alliance - website that provides info about all FRC teams and events
TBB - The Thrifty Bot - supplier of robot parts
TLAs - three letter acronyms. (shouldn’t this be 3LAs?)
TS - usually referring to the Team Spirit award

UFH - Unsung FIRST Hero
VIMS - Volunteer Information & Matching System - allows volunteers to sign up to help at events, etc.
WCP - West Coast Products, a supplier of robot parts

WF - Woodie Flowers
WFA - Woodie Flowers Award
WFFA - Woodie Flowers Finalist Award
WPI - Worcester Polytechnic Institute - a technological university located in Worcester, MA

WWT - “What was that?” generally said after____occurs on the field.
YPP - Youth Protection Program
Event-Related Acronyms
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A-STOP - Autonomous Stop
AD -
Audience Display
AUTO - Autonomous phase of a match
CCWM - Calculated Contribution to Winning the Match
CMP - Championship
​CPM - Cycles per Match
CRI - Chief Robot Inspector
CSA - Control System Advisor - wears orange hat
DPR - Defensive Power Rating
DQ - Disqualified
DS - Driver Station section of the field
D-STOP - Emergency Stop
EC - Event Coordinator
EPA - Expected Points Added - translates event ratings to points
FCUI - Field Control User Interface

FMS - Field Management System
FS - Field Supervisor
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FTA - FIRST Technical Advisor; Wears a blue vest with FTA on the back.
GA - Game Announcer
HP - Human Player
HR - Head Referee
IFI Guy - The lifesaving technician on the field who has that spare copy of xxxx on his flash drive
JA - Judge Advisor
KV - Key Volunteer
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LRI - Lead Robot Inspector - wears yellow hat/black cargo vest
MC - Master of Ceremonies/Emcee
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OI - Operator Interface (goes in your driver’s station)
OPR - Offensive Power Rating
QM - Queue Master
Q_ - Qualification Match Number
QF - Quarter Finals
Ref - Referee
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RP - Ranking Point
SCC - Station Control Cabinet - enclosures that house field electronics
SF - Semi Finals
​TeleOp - Teleoperated Period - the second part of a match

TIMS - Team Information Management System
VC - Volunteer Coordinator
W(zero) - Week Zero events


Robot-Specific Acronyms
80/20 - Company that makes extruded aluminum
4/6/8WD - number of wheels a drivetrain has
​<Gnn> - rule from the “Game” section, where nn is the number (likewise, <Rnn>, <Snn>, &c.)
ABS - Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (printer filament)
ADC - Analog to Digital Converter

APP - Anderson Power Pole connectors
BHCS - Button Cap Head Screw
BIGCIM – the larger CIM.
CAM - Computer Aided Manufacturing
CIM - CCL Industrial Motor
CPR - Cycles per Rotation

DAA - Dual-axis accelerometer
DC - Direct Current (from a battery)
DOC - Depth of Cut
DP - Diametrical Pitch - size of gear calculated :# teeth/diameter
ECCP - Enhanced Capture/Compare/PWM

EMF - Electromotive Force
FHCS - Flat Head Cap Screw

​GR - Gear Ratio
GTS - Gear Tooth Sensor
ID - Inside Diameter
IPM - Inches per minute
KITBot - a drivetrain made from components in the KOP
LED - Light Emitting Diode
LL - Limelight camera

MA - Mechanical Advantage
MDL-BDC - Module Brushed DC motor controller AKA Talon SRX
MP - MAXPlanetary (gearbox)
NEO - a brushless motor supplied by REV Robotic
OD - OUtside Diameter
PETG - Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol (printer filament)
PLA - Polylactic Acid (printer filament)

PSI - pounds per square inch (Pneumatics)
​RPM - Revolutions Per Minute (of the shaft coming out of your gearboxes or motors)
SHCS - Socket Head Cap Screw
TPI - Threads per inch
TPU - Thermoplastic Polyurethane (printer filament)
UNC - Unified National Coarse Thread
UNF - Unified National Fine Thread
UP - UltraPlanetary (gearbox)
VP - VersaPlanetary (gearbox)

WCD - West Coast Drive 
YRG - Yaw rate gyro​
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Robot Control System/Electronics Acronyms
​CAN - Controller Area Network (communication mode for controller) - Green/Yellow wire
ESC - Electronic Speed Controller
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IMU - Inertial measurement Unit - combines accelerometer and gyroscope in the same unit
IR Sensor (Infrared Sensor)
PCM - Pneumatics Control Module
PDH - Power Distribution Hub (REV)
PDP - Power Distribution Panel

PH - Pneumatic Hub
POE - Power Over Ethernet

POT - Potentiometer

PWM - Pulse Width Modulation - Red/Black/White wires
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roboRIO - control system "brain"
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RPM - Radio Power Module
RSL -
 Robot Signal Light
SLA - Sealed Lead-Acid Battery
UL - Underwriters Laboratories

VRM - Voltage Regulator Module ​​

Programming Acronyms
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
API - Application Programming Interface
DIO - Digital Input Output

EEPROM - Electrically Eraseable/Programmable Read-Only Memory
EUSART - Enhanced Universal Serial Reciever/Transmitter​​
FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array
GH - GITHub - a place for finding and sharing code​
LV - Labview

MXP - myRio Expansion Port, the expansion port on the RoboRIO​
NT - Network Tables

OpI - Orange Pi
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PID - Proportional Integral Derivative (closed loop programming
PP - Pathplanner - software for generating motion profiles
PPR - pulses per rotation from an encoder
PV - Photon Vision - vision software
PW - Pathweaver - software for programming autonomous motion
RIO - Reconfigurable Input/Output

RPi - Raspberry Pi, a mini computer
SOAP - SigmaC@T Opponent Analysis Program.

SPI - Serial Peripheral Interface
STEP - Standard ofr Exchange of Product Data - a file format used for 3d printing
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USB - Universal Serial Bus
VSC or VSCode - Visual Studio Code
VI - Virtual Environment

WPILib - WPI Robotics Library - a standard software library
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