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Re: Wheel controller for FRC

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Originally Posted by Poseidon5817 View Post
We drove at Madtown this past week with a wheel and joystick setup (on a swerve drive, if you would believe it!) And we found it to result in far more intuitive, precise, and quicker driving than an Xbox controller.
How did you map the controls with the wheel and joystick for swerve? The only way I could think of is to have the joystick control change in field-centric position (Δx and Δy) and the steering wheel control change in rotation (Δr). If you have an infinite rotation steering wheel I could imagine the steering wheel controlling absolute position (r relative to the field). To me, neither of these seem more intuitive than an xbox controller. Is this how you set it up, or did you come up with a better way?
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