[Ipiano]

I've only been on my team 2 years, but as the lead programmer, I've set up a number of different controls systems for our team to use. We've tried the following for driving:

Two logitech joysticks for tank-drive
One logitech joystick arcade style using the x axis(left to right)
One logitech 3D joystick arcade style using the z axis(twist)
One Xbox controller

In addition, we used the throttle lever at the bottom of the joystick to throttle the maximum speed up and down, and we used a side thumb button to invert driving, when the robot was turned around.

The result was that our drivers(and myself) preferred using a the logitech 3D joystick to drive arcade style using the z axis to turn, and we used a second logitech joystick to control various other functions on the robot including our shooter(2012) and our climbing mechanism(2013)