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A learning method is proposed for Koopman operator-based models with the goal of improving closed-loop control behavior. A neural network-based approach is used to discover a space of observables in which nonlinear dynamics is linearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Daisuke Uchida , Karthik Duraisamy

Soft grippers are gaining momentum across applications due to their flexibility and dexterity. However, the infinite-dimensionality and non-linearity associated with soft robots challenge modeling and closed-loop control of soft grippers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Lu Shi , Caio Mucchiani , Konstantinos Karydis

Transfer and Koopman operator methods offer a framework for representing complex, nonlinear dynamical systems via linear transformations, enabling a deeper understanding of the underlying dynamics. The spectra of these operators provide…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Gary Froyland , Kevin Kühl

Controlling nonlinear dynamical systems remains a central challenge in a wide range of applications, particularly when accurate first-principle models are unavailable. Data-driven approaches offer a promising alternative by designing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Robin Strässer , Karl Worthmann , Igor Mezić , Julian Berberich , Manuel Schaller , Frank Allgöwer

This paper continues in the work from arXiv:1903.06103 [math.OC] where a nonlinear vehicle model was approximated in a purely data-driven manner by a linear predictor of higher order, namely the Koopman operator. The vehicle system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Vít Cibulka , Milan Korda , Tomáš Haniš , Martin Hromčík

Controlling soft continuum manipulator arms is difficult due to their infinite degrees of freedom, nonlinear material properties, and large deflections under loading. This paper presents a data-driven approach to identifying soft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Daniel Bruder , Xun Fu , R. Brent Gillespie , C. David Remy , Ram Vasudevan

Despite impressive dexterous manipulation capabilities enabled by learning-based approaches, we are yet to witness widespread adoption beyond well-resourced laboratories. This is likely due to practical limitations, such as significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Yunhai Han , Mandy Xie , Ye Zhao , Harish Ravichandar

The design and analysis of optimal control policies for dynamical systems can be complicated by nonlinear dependence in the state variables. Koopman operators have been used to simplify the analysis of dynamical systems by mapping the flow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Craig Bakker , Steven Rosenthal , Kathleen E. Nowak

Recently Koopman operator has become a promising data-driven tool to facilitate real-time control for unknown nonlinear systems. It maps nonlinear systems into equivalent linear systems in embedding space, ready for real-time linear control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Haojie Shi , Max Q. -H. Meng

In recent years, the success of the Koopman operator in dynamical systems analysis has also fueled the development of Koopman operator-based control frameworks. In order to preserve the relatively low data requirements for an approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Sebastian Peitz , Samuel E. Otto , Clarence W. Rowley

In this work, we propose a meta-learning-based Koopman modeling and predictive control approach for nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties. An adaptive deep meta-learning-based modeling approach, called Meta Adaptive Koopman…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Minghao Han , Kiwan Wong , Adrian Wing-Keung Law , Xunyuan Yin

Koopman-based learning methods can potentially be practical and powerful tools for dynamical robotic systems. However, common methods to construct Koopman representations seek to learn lifted linear models that cannot capture nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Carl Folkestad , Joel W. Burdick

This paper proposes a novel approach for modeling and controlling nonlinear systems with varying parameters. The approach introduces the use of a parameter-varying Koopman operator (PVKO) in a lifted space, which provides an efficient way…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Changyu Lee , Kiyong Park , Jinwhan Kim

We present a novel approach to shared control of human-machine systems. Our method assumes no a priori knowledge of the system dynamics. Instead, we learn both the dynamics and information about the user's interaction from observation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Alexander Broad , Todd Murphey , Brenna Argall

Nonlinear dynamical systems can be made easier to control by lifting them into the space of observable functions, where their evolution is described by the linear Koopman operator. This paper describes how the Koopman operator can be used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Daniel Bruder , Xun Fu , Ram Vasudevan

Within this work, we investigate how data-driven numerical approximation methods of the Koopman operator can be used in practical control engineering applications. We refer to the method Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition (EDMD), which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Annika Junker , Julia Timmermann , Ansgar Trächtler

This paper introduces a method for data-driven control based on the Koopman operator model predictive control. Unlike exiting approaches, the method does not require a dictionary and incorporates a nonlinear input transformation, thereby…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Vít Cibulka , Milan Korda , Tomáš Haniš

In the development of model predictive controllers for PDE-constrained problems, the use of reduced order models is essential to enable real-time applicability. Besides local linearization approaches, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Sebastian Peitz , Stefan Klus

Controlling robots that dynamically engage in contact with their environment is a pressing challenge. Whether a legged robot making-and-breaking contact with a floor, or a manipulator grasping objects, contact is everywhere. Unfortunately,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Cormac O'Neill , Jasmine Terrones , H. Harry Asada

Koopman-based modeling and model predictive control have been a promising alternative for optimal control of nonlinear processes. Good Koopman modeling performance significantly depends on an appropriate nonlinear mapping from the original…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Zhaoyang Li , Minghao Han , Dat-Nguyen Vo , Xunyuan Yin