
(We simply have a button on the joystick to switch modes) What my team does is just have the two modes and the driver can use which ever they want. In the end it is just the preference of the driver. In practice this doesn’t matter since the errors are small and drivers can easily adjust. Arcade all on one joystick also makes it hard to drive straight since you cannot get the turning axis to be exactly 0. Drive with curves is possible with both as long as for arcade drive the joystick values are all added together. With tank drive it is very hard to get the two to the exact same value, or exact opposite values for turning. This let’s you drive perfectly straight or exactly turn at any speed. Tank drive doesn’t work for x or h drive because they can also move side to side.įor a tank-like base the theoretically best controls are arcade drive, forward and backwards on one joystick and turning on the other.
