one control stick or two?

[Lisa Perez]

In addition to what everyone has said thus far, with two-stick it is somewhat simpler to adjust to problems with the drive (for example, one side may not be performing at the same speed as the other for whatever reason). Adjusting with one-stick is doable, but personally I believe it is much harder.

[Tytus Gerrish]

for a tank drive type system In my opinion 2 Stick is deffenetly better.

[Billfred]

I'm inclined to agree. 1293 had one stick this year for driving, and BOY was it a pain in the wazoo to get that joystick to center! We couldn't get the darn thing still in both axes for quite a while, then had to remember which joystick was which when we plugged it up, since our arm controller was calibrated differently.

Your mileage, however, may vary.

<edit>I should point out that 1293's setup was the classis skid-steer setup, with shopping cart-ish casters on the other wheels.</edit>

[Josh Hambright]

I would have to say that it does depend on what type of drive your using.
When i was a driver/operator for 461, I used a few different configurations for driving. When we had our hybrid/omni/crab drive we used 1 stick and a throttle. I liked that alot although i also liked driving that one without the throttle. When driving a tank style drive base though i cant say enough about the controllabilty of using 2 sticks, in my mind it really give you the most accurate and effective control over your robot.

[Kyle Love]

On 45, we used 2 to drive 2 to operate. Our engineers talked to the drive team, from what I heard and figured out the easiest way to control it. If you have ever seen our arm I don't think theres a way to use just one stick. HAHA! If you want to see a pic of the arm go here.

-Kyle