A fair number of acronyms are used throughout this manual. Below is a list of many of these acronyms and additional terms along with their definition. The official definitions and descriptions of field components are found in the FRC Game Manual.
| Acronym | Term | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| FRC | FIRST Robotics Competition | The original FIRST program, for high school students. |
| FMS | Field Management System | The software (provided by FIRST) that walks volunteers through the course of an FRC event |
| SCC | Station Control Cabinet | A series of plastic enclosures that house electronics that are assembled and maintained by FIRST Engineering, and setup around the field |
| DS | Driver Station | A computer, usually a Windows laptop, used to relay control commands from the Team to the Robot |
| roboRIO | Control system "brain" manufactured by National Instruments and required on each FRC Robot | |
| Pit Display | A laptop, provided by FIRST that displays ranking information at each event to people not in the immediate area of the field | |
| PCK | Philips Color Kinetics | A line of products manufactured by Philips, including controllers and light strings, that commonly appear around FRC fields to relay scoring information to the audience and teams |
| Audience Display | A software program that is used to control the display of game information to the audience, including real-time scoring, rankings, playoff brackets, and more. | |
| FCUI | Field Control User Interface | Formerly a piece of FIRST hardware, now refers to the match control bar within the Match Play interface. |
Jul 12, 2016