# Setpoint **Domain:** Cybernetics / Governance / Optimization **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Objective Function]], [[Error Signal]], [[Control Systems]], [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] --- ## Definition The desired state or reference value against which a controller compares a system’s observed condition. ## Kybernetiks Context In education or governance the setpoint is normative, not merely technical: it encodes the conduct, performance or social outcome toward which correction is applied. ## Backlinks [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] · [[articles/Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks|Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]