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Originally Posted by buildmaster5000
Now I am curious...you said sensors for swerve, but I'm not sure how we would implement said sensors (ie what types and where would we need them)
As far as programming, would you reccomend a joystick devoted to moving the robot in any direction and another axis (x axis on a 2nd stick comes to mind) devoted to rotating the robot around its CoG?
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You absolutely need to have a position sensor for each rotating wheel. The sensors are necessary so that your program knows what direction the wheels are pointing. We used
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As for control, it is really up to your driver. Last year our driver wanted to have one 3axis joystick to point the wheels, and another joystick to power the wheels. This year our driver wanted everything on one three axis joystick for the swerve, while for the mecanum he wanted everything on the two joysticks of an Xbox 360 controller.