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Originally Posted by efoote868
I strongly disagree. The easiest drive to learn in a short amount of time is some form of field-centric omnidirectional drive. Just point your joystick in the direction you want your robot to go, and it goes.
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Even with a field-centric drive, I have witnessed many first-time drivers struggle to grasp omnidirectional driving in the time they can easily grasp simple arcade drive. It's the mind set of properly using the drive train by translating in multiple axes rather than always rotating to change direction that most seem to struggle with. Re-orienting the robot to change direction is intuitive since that's how most things we are used to work (humans, cars, etc.). Keeping the robot facing a constant heading while changing direction is counter-intuitive for most, while it may seem easy for others.