It very much depends on the game, your robot design, your UI design, and the capabilities of your driver. If the driver can do it all, this leaves the "gunner" free to monitor the robot while the coach watches the whole field and the driver can focus on one thing at a time.
- This year, we hope to have the roboRIO be the gunner - we're trying to automate all the high-repetition tasks like alignment, lifting, stacking, and scoring stacks.
- Last year (Aerial Assist), our driver did do all the driving and shooting.
- In Ultimate Ascent, the gunner handled the climb only. Cimbing was a bit of a moving target for us as the frisbee was top priority. We never did get the procedure down well enough for the drivers to get any practice.
- In Rebound Rumble (our rookie year), our robot just had too many moving parts and too little advanced programming for one person to do it all.