Considering Steering Wheel Controls

Technical Technical Discussion
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After seeing steering wheel controls (with a joystick as a throttle) implemented on several robots this year, I thought that it would be an interesting offseason project to work on implementing these controls. So, I have a few questions for teams who use this setup:

  1. Is this control scheme intuitive?

  2. Have you ever used it with a holonomic drivetrain? Did it work well?

  3. What steering wheel would you recommend?

  4. Are there any programming challenges with this interface?

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971 wrote about their steering wheel setup here: http://frc971.org/content/programming

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This would be interesting to me too: And if you are doing it what’s your scheme for mapping the 2 degrees of freedom of wheel/pedal onto the 3 degrees of freedom of forward/sideways/turn? Was there some sort of additional input?