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Silvan 7e4a53f292 VTOL tiltrotor: introduce spin up time with spin up tilt angle
As some tiltrotor systems need a certain tilt angle of their motors in oder to spin up freely,
this commit introduces an additional parameter VT_TILT_SPINUP and sets the motor tilt to
this value if disarmed or within 1s since arming.

The spinup consists of 2 phases:
    1st phase fixed tilt (duration hardcoded to 1s)
    2nd phase transition from spinup tilt to multicopter tilt (hardcoded to 0.5s)

Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
2020-04-08 21:12:53 -04:00

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/**
* @file tiltrotor_params.c
* Parameters for vtol attitude controller.
*
* @author Roman Bapst <roman@px4.io>
*/
/**
* Position of tilt servo in mc mode
*
* @min 0.0
* @max 1.0
* @increment 0.01
* @decimal 3
* @group VTOL Attitude Control
*/
PARAM_DEFINE_FLOAT(VT_TILT_MC, 0.0f);
/**
* Position of tilt servo in transition mode
*
* @min 0.0
* @max 1.0
* @increment 0.01
* @decimal 3
* @group VTOL Attitude Control
*/
PARAM_DEFINE_FLOAT(VT_TILT_TRANS, 0.3f);
/**
* Position of tilt servo in fw mode
*
* @min 0.0
* @max 1.0
* @increment 0.01
* @decimal 3
* @group VTOL Attitude Control
*/
PARAM_DEFINE_FLOAT(VT_TILT_FW, 1.0f);
/**
* Tilt actuator control value commanded when disarmed and during the first second after arming.
*
* This specific tilt during spin-up is necessary for some systems whose motors otherwise don't
* spin-up freely.
*
* @min 0.0
* @max 1.0
* @increment 0.01
* @decimal 3
* @group VTOL Attitude Control
*/
PARAM_DEFINE_FLOAT(VT_TILT_SPINUP, 0.0f);
/**
* Duration of front transition phase 2
*
* Time in seconds it should take for the rotors to rotate forward completely from the point
* when the plane has picked up enough airspeed and is ready to go into fixed wind mode.
*
* @unit s
* @min 0.1
* @max 5.0
* @increment 0.01
* @decimal 3
* @group VTOL Attitude Control
*/
PARAM_DEFINE_FLOAT(VT_TRANS_P2_DUR, 0.5f);