{"id":4061,"date":"2019-02-12T16:21:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyflexdoc.wpengine.com\/usage-help-manual\/11-control-systems\/user_ctrl_task\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:55:33","slug":"user_ctrl_task","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/usage-help-manual\/7-control-systems\/user_ctrl_task\/","title":{"rendered":"user_ctrl_task"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3>Purpose:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p>Provide PID control algorithms for user control loops. Difficult to manually start. It is normally spawned by the user_ctrl_specs task.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Enter:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><strong>user_ctrl_task<\/strong> &lt;priority&gt; &lt;interval&gt; &lt;loop_name&gt; [+c]<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Where:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<div>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col \/>\n<col \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>priority<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Specify the desired run priority (e.g., 17).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>interval<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Specify WARP, FAS, MED, SLO, USR1, or USR2.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>loop_name<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Specify the name of the control loop as specified in the user_ctrl_specs file. This name is limited to 28 characters.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>+c<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Optional. Specify this flag to indicate that failure of the task should trip the watchdog.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Example:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><strong>user_ctrl_task<\/strong> 17 FAS my_fast_ctrl +c &amp;<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Notes:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p>To change the critical nature of a running instance, slay the existing task, edit the user control specification file, and reprocess it.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/usage-help-manual\/7-control-systems\/user_ctrl_specs\/\">user_ctrl_specs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose: Provide PID control algorithms for user control loops. Difficult to manually start. It is normally spawned by the user_ctrl_specs task. Enter: user_ctrl_task &lt;priority&gt; &lt;interval&gt; &lt;loop_name&gt; [+c] Where: priority Specify the desired run priority (e.g., 17). interval Specify WARP, FAS, MED, SLO, USR1, or USR2. loop_name Specify the name of the control loop as specified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":1958,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4061","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4061\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}