Drive style
 

How do you drive your robot?

A game pad i.e (Xbox or game pad, or anything else)

Or

Joysticks

Or

Something cooler

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Also, if you have something nice, like some special control.

Standard is tank.

Team 302 does a special rc mode, where on our game pad, the left thumbstick is universal control for both sides for forward and reverse movement. The right thumbstick is for turning.

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When it comes to Mecanum wheel definitely the gamepad you have front back right and left with your left stick and right stick is your turning so it is just like playing a 3rd person shooter (no pun intended) this year. Now if you have a standard drive with six or eight wheel drive I love the two joystick tank drive.

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1515 controls the drivebase with a Joystick/Throttle combination and controls all additional subsystems with a touch screen OI.

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We use a standard Logitech controller, with some special controls that change from year to year. This year a lot of our buttons control automatic functions on the robot. (Ooh, automatic! :D)

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Team 842 adopted the pistol grip rc controller style of driving last year and had amazing results with it.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/30639

It's ease of use is amazing as anybody with a little bit of practice can start driving relatively easily. We are going to be using it this year as well.

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That's really cool. Although i would never do that, im asian, i like my controllers. Haha it must be really different to drive that though, thats really cool.

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I agree. Last year we had the Mecanum and the driver ran it like he was playing Halo. This year we kept the X-Box, but have skid steer. Our driver seems to be doing well with it.

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My team this is using joysticks and an io board with switchs and toggle buttons for preset functions

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This year, our team used two Xbox 360 controllers to control the robot, one for driving related functions (drive motors, ramp-lowering pneumatic piston), and one for shooting functions (loader, shooting speed). The drive system was controlled with a single joystick (arcade drive), and the other one was left unused. In previous years, we've done arcade drive with a single Logitech Attack 3.

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I like 2 joysticks because you get much more throw than on a gamepad. This really helps with differentiating between low and high speed, and makes it easier to match the joysticks if doing tank. It's too easy to let one thumb off a gamepad stick a tenth of a second before the other and cause your bot to turn every time you stop.

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We use a Joystick and a custom button board powered through the eSTOP. We do arcade drive through the Joystick (with a few button features) and then control of the gun/conveyor/bridge tipper/sweeper through the button board. We find the button board easy to use (both for our drivers and for small kids/sponsors at demos), neat and fairly attractive.

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We use an iPad

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Our team in the past has used joysticks, but we switched over to game controllers ever since we had "hardcore" (for lack of better term) gamers for drivers.

We have two drivers, and they both use separate game-pads. One for driving and shifting gears, and another for manipulator devices (acquisition device, kicker, shooter, etc). It is whatever the drivers feel more comfortable with; some tend to be better with joysticks than a game controller, and vice versa.

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We use joysticks, our team is used to them and we like to have more buttons. We don't have any hardcore gamers that use game controllers.