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Re: one control stick or two?
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> Last edited by Billfred : 11-08-2004 at 17:09. |
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Re: one control stick or two?
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. |
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Re: one control stick or two?
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.
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Re: one control stick or two?
i would imagine that you could splice in the cable for the second joystick so that you would only be using one port (so then it just comes down to the driver's preference and nothing else).....there are a lot of available inputs....haven't ever tried it, but I smell a project coming on....
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Everything worked fine... Expect that the IFI guy flipped out about the antenna passthrough... Just an FYI for everyone... Don't mess with the antenna port (and before you flame me... I'm sure that, that is listed somewhere in the rules...) |
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Re: one control stick or two?
We used a toggle switch mounted on our control box to change between 1 stick and 2 stick control. The modes were called pilot and tank drive respectively.
We found that most people thought they were better with pilot mode. However, after playing with the robot for long periods of time they were much better at tank drive. It seemed that they had an easier time avoiding obstacles in tank drive. |
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Re: one control stick or two?
thanks for all the great input guys, i will be sure to forward this to my next team meeting.
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