Joystick Control

February 11, 2017

A photo of our game controller — yes, we really did just buy a Logitech.

We like robots, but we don’t like out of control robots. To ensure we never have an out of control robot, we wrote software to translate input from a usb game controller into commands for the robot. This piece of software not only gives us the ability to remote control the robot, but also tests the integration of our behaviors and our arbiter. The controller code acts just like any other behavior, submitting requests to the arbiter for a certain speed, direction, and rotation.