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Learn › Glossary › control error

What does control error mean?

In control, the difference between the target and the measurement: target minus actual. Its sign says which way to correct, its size how much.

Also written as: error signal

Learn it

  • Taught in 3.1 What a controller is Control, Robot club

Used in

  • U10.5 Feedforward and feedback
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