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Re: Drive Systems

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Originally Posted by jfitz0807 View Post
The left stick is solely for forward/backward and the right stick is solely for turns. We read both sticks and feed them into an ArcadeDrive method. Driving straight is very easy because if he lets go of the right stick and pushes the left stick forward, even if the stick is off a little to one side, we read the "y" value only from the y axis of the left stick and the x axis is 0 since there's no force on the right stick.
Just FYI, this is known as a split arcade drive. Our team is also using it this year, and I can attest that it works well.
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