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Nonlinear dynamical effects are crucial to the operation of many agile robotic systems. Koopman-based model learning methods can capture these nonlinear dynamical system effects in higher dimensional lifted bilinear models that are amenable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Carl Folkestad , Skylar X. Wei , Joel W. Burdick

We examine nonlinear Kolmogorov partial differential equations (PDEs). Here the nonlinear part of the PDE comes from its Hamiltonian where one maximizes over all possible drift and diffusion coefficients which fall within a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Daniel Bartl , Ariel Neufeld , Kyunghyun Park

We propose a data-driven method for controlling the frequency and convergence rate of black-box nonlinear dynamical systems based on the Koopman operator theory. With the proposed method, a policy network is trained such that the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-19 Tomoharu Iwata , Yoshinobu Kawahara

This paper studies the partially observed stochastic optimal control problem for systems with state dynamics governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) that leads to an extremely large problem. First, an open-loop deterministic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-06 Dan Yu , Mohammadhussein Rafieisakhaei , Suman Chakravorty

This paper delves into the challenges posed by the increasing complexity of modern control systems, specifically focusing on bilinear systems, a prevalent subclass of non-linear systems characterized by state dynamics influenced by the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Md Nur-A-Adam Dony

Controlling robots with strongly nonlinear, high-dimensional dynamics remains challenging, as direct nonlinear optimization with safety constraints is often intractable in real time. The Koopman operator offers a way to represent nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sebin Jung , Abulikemu Abuduweili , Jiaxing Li , Changliu Liu

This paper presents a data-driven method to find a closed-loop optimal controller, which minimizes a specified infinite-horizon cost function for systems with unknown dynamics. Suppose the closed-loop optimal controller can be parameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Wenjian Hao , Paulo C. Heredia , Shaoshuai Mou

In the framework of Model Predictive Control (MPC), the control input is typically computed by solving optimization problems repeatedly online. For general nonlinear systems, the online optimization problems are non-convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Zheming Wang , Raphaël M. Jungers

Modeling and controlling complex spatiotemporal dynamical systems driven by partial differential equations (PDEs) often necessitate dimensionality reduction techniques to construct lower-order models for computational efficiency. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Priyabrata Saha , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

MPC is widely used in real-time applications, but practical implementations are typically restricted to convex QP formulations to ensure fast and certified execution. Koopman-based MPC enables QP-based control of nonlinear systems by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Liang Wu , Wallace Gian Yion Tan , Leqi Zhou , Richard D. Braatz , Jan Drgona

When complex systems with nonlinear dynamics achieve an output performance objective, only a fraction of the state dynamics significantly impacts that output. Those minimal state dynamics can be identified using the differential geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Shara Balakrishnan , Aqib Hasnain , Robert Egbert , Enoch Yeung

High-dimensional partial differential equations (PDE) appear in a number of models from the financial industry, such as in derivative pricing models, credit valuation adjustment (CVA) models, or portfolio optimization models. The PDEs in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Christian Beck , Weinan E , Arnulf Jentzen

Koopman operators and transfer operators represent nonlinear dynamics in state space through its induced action on linear spaces of observables and measures, respectively. This framework enables the use of linear operator theory for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Claire Valva , Dimitrios Giannakis

We present a deep recurrent neural network architecture to solve a class of stochastic optimal control problems described by fully nonlinear Hamilton Jacobi Bellmanpartial differential equations. Such PDEs arise when one considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Marcus A Pereira , Ziyi Wang , Tianrong Chen , Emily Reed , Evangelos A Theodorou

The Koopman operator enables simplified representations for nonlinear systems in data-driven optimal control, but the accompanying uncertainties inevitably induce deviations in the optimal controller and associated value function. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Yicheng Lin , Bingxian Wu , Nan Bai , Yunxiao Ren , Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan

We present a new scientific machine learning method that learns from data a computationally inexpensive surrogate model for predicting the evolution of a system governed by a time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE), an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Elizabeth Qian , Ionut-Gabriel Farcas , Karen Willcox

The Koopman operator and its data-driven approximations, such as extended dynamic mode decomposition (EDMD), are widely used for analysing, modelling, and controlling nonlinear dynamical systems. However, when the true Koopman…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Roland Schurig , Pieter van Goor , Karl Worthmann , Rolf Findeisen

Numerous physics theories are rooted in partial differential equations (PDEs). However, the increasingly intricate physics equations, especially those that lack analytic solutions or closed forms, have impeded the further development of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Wei Xiong , Muyuan Ma , Xiaomeng Huang , Ziyang Zhang , Pei Sun , Yang Tian

Nonlinearity in dynamics has long been a major challenge in robotics, often causing significant performance degradation in existing control algorithms. For example, the navigation of bipedal robots can exhibit nonlinear behaviors even under…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jeonghwan Kim , Yunhai Han , Harish Ravichandar , Sehoon Ha

This paper studies the partially observed stochastic optimal control problem for systems with state dynamics governed by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) that leads to an extremely large problem. First, an open-loop deterministic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Dan Yu , Mohammadhussein Rafieisakhaei , Suman Chakravorty