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Interdisciplinary concept for analyzing and designing control and feedback mechanisms in technical and social systems.
Cybernetics studies control, feedback loops and information flows in technical and social systems. It provides abstract models for self-organization, adaptation and regulatory mechanisms and informs system architecture, organizational design and process control. Practically, cybernetics guides the creation of resilient, adaptive systems and feedback-driven operational practices.
Time between an event and a measurable system response.
Time until a stable state is restored after a disturbance.
Measure of oscillations, overshoot, or persistence of deviations.
A simple control loop using temperature data to operate heating and cooling.
Use of feedback and sensor data for steering, stabilization and adaptation of driving behavior.
Feedback loops in management to improve strategic decisions and processes.
Define problem space and determine observables
Create a system model or describe coarse dynamics
Design feedback and control mechanisms
Set up instrumentation and monitoring
Iteratively test, measure and adjust