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by HeyLaughingBoy 2901 days ago
A feedback control system, aka a "closed-loop" control system is one in which the actual output is sampled and compared to the desired output and the "controller" adjusts the system gain to reduce the error (difference between actual and desired outputs).

i.e., a portion of the output is "fed back" to the input to obtain that difference between actual and desired output.

Does that help?