Unique ways of controlling your robot (driving)

[BigJ]

Originally Posted by Abwehr

We played around with this configuration the past two years with our omni-drive, but our drivers felt that it was "too much" for one hand. You would be trying to strafe when you inadvertently would twist the stick.

Stiffer springs in the joystick would have helped, but we moved onto a different control system that has helped our omni-drive bots win regionals in back-to-back years.

Left stick:
Y axis is forward/backward
X axis is turning (e.g. single stick drive with a skid-steer bot)

Right stick:
Y axis does nothing
X axis strafes

It seems unintuitive on paper, but if you have experience driving skid-steer bots with a single stick, it lets you transfer that knowledge while allowing you to strafe when needed.

So, do you translate at angles by mixing forward/backward and strafing then?