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Re: What is the best robot-operating setup you can think of?
For driving the drivetrain, I'd say this comes down to user preference. Most cases, there are so few controls that this driver really needs that you can drive with pretty much any* control setup. I prefer either two stick tank(each stick controls one side of the drivetrain) on two joysticks or one Logitech gamepad.
However, driving manipulators and other systems is a different question. Some teams prefer to use commercially available controls. The KOP joysticks or the Logitech Dual Action gamepads are very popular as controls. Some other teams prefer to create custom controls for the operator(buttons, knobs, or even scale models of the system being controlled). Some teams(Us included) try a mix of both of those options. The operator controls are best tailored to the system being controlled.
My $.02,
Jeremy
* Under the 2011 control system, driving with a mouse or keyboard is not as easy to set up as joysticks or other controls. I'd say it isn't worth the effort to get something like this working for robot control.
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