06-04-2008, 17:46
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Team Role: Human Player
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Rookie Year: 1991
Location: na
Posts: 92
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Re: Unique ways of controlling your robot (driving)
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Originally Posted by jtkellertx
We use one joystick.
Having mechanums, we can move in any direction. Being of the video game generation, I had it programmed like a helicopter. Forward is forward, back is back, left is a left straife, right is a right straife, twist left is a left rotation, twist right is a right rotation. It makes a bunch of intuitive sense. You can think of it as a helicoper or think of it as a first person shooter. We use a Saitek Avaitor USB joystick, attached to a USB chicklet. The top buttons are for the launch, arm pick up, and arm drop.
More techie description:
+Y = Forwards
-Y = Backwards
+X = Right Straife
-X = Left Straife
+Z = Right twist (right turn)
-Z = Left twist
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That's a sweet control scheme. How long did it take your drive team to adjust? Do you have any videos of your robot in action?
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