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Unread 10-05-2005, 06:52
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Re: pic: Jester Drive:Mecanum Wheel Drive Train

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Originally Posted by BrianBSL
A keyboard limits you a lot - allowing you to only move in 4 directions rather than an infinite amount that the joystick allows you. A mouse doesn't really give you anything that a joystick doesn't, and you have to worry about running out of room on the mousing surface. We (190) use a joystick for the direction vector (relative to the driver) and a 2nd joystick for rotating counter clockwise or clockwise. We're probably going to set it up with a single 3 axis joystick to make it more intuitive, however. The second joystick also has the issue with more experienced drivers, when they start driving it tank-drive style.
The three axis joystick is definately what we have been looking at, but there's one problem with it - it's designed to be used from vehicle persepctive. Even in talking with Airtrax, they use the joystick for their drivers, and they said that doing it without having that first-person perspective would be difficult. so if we do, indeed give it a try, i suspect we'll be training with the joystick for a few months.
as for our current controls, we only use a single joystick.
normal: front, back and spin
trigger: direct motion in the direction the joystick is pointing
-it's actually a lot easier than dealing with two joysticks
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