Our team has a simple tank drive design and currently uses single-stick driving. Our drivers seem to have problem driving fast, precisely and smoothly, and we are considering switching to driving with two joysticks. Between single-stick and two-stick, which one is better in general from your team’s experience? Thanks.
Two stick, definitely. We found it nearly impossible to precisely drive with a single-stick drive. However, the most important factor is how comfortable your driver is with the controls. I would simply test different controls and ask your driver to choose the one he is most comfortable with.
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I use split arcade and once i swapped from left arcade to split arcade, i got much better at driving. Driving isnt all speed so using split arcade for more precision hells a ton
What do you mean by split arcade? Left joystick for speed and right joystick for steering? That is another configuration for tank drive. Do you feel that increases precision?
Thanks for sharing your experience and your suggestion. Splitting speed and turning should help drive precisely.
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Split across 2 sticks is more common, plus our console gamers can just treat it has a video game.
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- 1 joy stick
- 2 joy stick
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If the problem persists after switching to two-stick (and after drive practice), consider coding expo driver control (exponential curving on the joysticks).
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imo tank drive layout is the best. It allows you to independantly control the left and right side of the drive using the left and right joysticks. this means that you have more control over your bots exact motions. Now ive heard from alot of people that it is less intutive especially if you are a big video game player. But I never had this problem as i learend from the get go how to drive tank.
there is also split arcade whichis same as single stick arcade but one joystic turns and one does forwards and backwards.
just to be clear, any driver can do well with any layout. the single most important thing is practice. im 100% confidnet that if i had started driving single stick arcade and stuck with it that i would be just as good today as I am with tank. it jsut a question of getting used to your controls and knowing exactly how your inputs will affect the robots motion. practice makes perfect.
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this is what we use, and it works really well.
Two sticks will always be better for turning, going straight, and being more precise overall as an option.
Our driver switched to two sticks this season and the difference is unreal - I definitely recommend it.
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My preferred controller map is a little funny…
On the left side is normal arcade (forward, backward, turn) at 50% speed. On the right side is also 50% speed arcade, except with forward and backward being swapped (making aligning with mogos easier).
Makes for some nice precision movement, averages my weird driving movements, and enables me to throw both joysticks when I need speed.
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