# Actuator **Domain:** Control Engineering / Governance **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Control Systems]], [[Administrative Control Systems]], [[Cybernetic Governance]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition The component through which a controller changes the system it regulates. ## Kybernetiks Context In the article’s school-system reading, teachers, schedules, curricula and placement decisions act as institutional actuators operating on learners and populations. ## Backlinks [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]