From what I can remember from my time on my team, we've used these control setups for driving our robots...
- 2006: Tank Drive - 2 Joysticks (the old, black Flight Stick controllers) for driving, plus one custom 4-button control box for switching between collection/shooting modes.
- 2007-2008: Tank Drive - 2 FS Joysticks for driving, plus 2 additional joysticks for other robot functions.
- 2009-2010: Tank Drive - 2 Logitech Attack 3 Joysticks for driving,
- 2011: Tank Drive - 1 Logitech (PS3) Gamepad for driving, modified NES controller for the robots arm (Robot was reprogrammed after the season to require only the one Logitech Gamepad to control all functions, minus gear shifting, which was disabled).
- 2012-2013: Tank Drive - 1 Logitech (PS3) Gamepad for driving and other functions, no other controllers.
Having been a robot driver from 2006-2008, and, as a mentor, having also been able to occasionally drive every robot since then, I must say I'm still partial to older dual-joystick controls. You just don't seem to get the same resolution in the controls with the newer gamepads like you did with those old Flight Sticks. But that's my 2 cents at least.