# Control Systems **Domain:** Engineering / Cybernetics / Regulation **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Cybernetics]], [[Feedback Loops]], [[Control Plane]], [[Adaptive Systems]] --- ## Definition **Control systems** regulate processes by comparing observed state with a goal or reference condition and applying corrective action. ## Corpus Context Control becomes governance when the regulated process contains persons or allocates consequential opportunities. The central questions then concern who defines the target, who can inspect the feedback and whether the subject can contest the system's representation of error. ## See Also [[Objective Function]], [[Algorithmic Governance]], [[Human Agency]], [[Prediction Is Not Jurisdiction]]