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This paper contributes a theoretical framework for data-driven feedback linearization of nonlinear control-affine systems. We unify the traditional geometric perspective on feedback linearization with an operator-theoretic perspective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Darshan Gadginmath , Vishaal Krishnan , Fabio Pasqualetti

Accurate modeling and control of autonomous vehicles remain a fundamental challenge due to the nonlinear and coupled nature of vehicle dynamics. While Koopman operator theory offers a framework for deploying powerful linear control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Mohammad Abtahi , Farhang Motallebi Araghi , Navid Mojahed , Shima Nazari

The Koopman operator enables the analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems through a linear perspective by describing time evolution in the infinite-dimensional space of observables. Here this formalism is applied to shear flows, specifically…

This paper extends the Willems' Fundamental Lemma to nonlinear control-affine systems using the Koopman bilinear realization. This enables us to bypass the Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition (EDMD)-based system identification step in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Zuxun Xiong , Zhenyi Yuan , Keyan Miao , Han Wang , Jorge Cortes , Antonis Papachristodoulou

The Koopman operator serves as the theoretical backbone for machine learning of dynamical control systems, where the operator is heuristically approximated by extended dynamic mode decomposition (EDMD). In this paper, we propose SafEDMD, a…

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

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

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 distributed Koopman operator learning framework for modeling unknown nonlinear dynamics using sequential observations from multiple agents. Each agent estimates a local Koopman approximation based on lifted data and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Ali Azarbahram , Shenyu Liu , Gian Paolo Incremona

This work presents a hybrid physics-informed and data-driven modeling framework for predictive control of autonomous off-road vehicles operating on deformable terrain. Traditional high-fidelity terramechanics models are often too…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Kartik Loya , Phanindra Tallapragada

Autonomous driving technologies have received notable attention in the past decades. In autonomous driving systems, identifying a precise dynamical model for motion control is nontrivial due to the strong nonlinearity and uncertainty in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Yongqian Xiao , Xinglong Zhang , Xin Xu , Xueqing Liu , Jiahang Liu

Koopman theory asserts that a nonlinear dynamical system can be mapped to a linear system, where the Koopman operator advances observations of the state forward in time. However, the observable functions that map states to observations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jeremy Morton , Freddie D Witherden , Mykel J Kochenderfer

This article addresses the output regulation problem for a class of nonlinear systems using a data-driven approach. An output feedback controller is proposed that integrates a traditional control component with a data-driven learning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Telema Harry , Martin Guay , Shimin Wang , Richard D. Braatz

We present a method to design a state-feedback controller ensuring exponential stability for nonlinear systems using only measurement data. Our approach relies on Koopman-operator theory and uses robust control to explicitly account for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Robin Strässer , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann , Julian Berberich , Frank Allgöwer

Koopman operator theory provides a global linear representation of nonlinear dynamics and underpins many data-driven methods. In practice, however, finite-dimensional feature spaces induced by a user-chosen dictionary are rarely invariant,…

Nonlinear dynamical systems are ubiquitous in science and engineering, yet analysis and prediction of these systems remains a challenge. Koopman operator theory circumvents some of these issues by considering the dynamics in the space of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Mason Kamb , Eurika Kaiser , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

This paper proposes a robust nonlinear observer synthesis method for a population of systems modelled using the Koopman operator. The Koopman operator allows nonlinear systems to be rewritten as infinite-dimensional linear systems. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Steven Dahdah , James Richard Forbes

Quantum computation offers potential exponential speedups for simulating certain physical systems, but its application to nonlinear dynamics is inherently constrained by the requirement of unitary evolution. We propose the quantum Koopman…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Baoyang Zhang , Zhen Lu , Yaomin Zhao , Yue Yang

This paper presents an active learning strategy for robotic systems that takes into account task information, enables fast learning, and allows control to be readily synthesized by taking advantage of the Koopman operator representation. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Ian Abraham , Todd D. Murphey

We present a data-driven shared control algorithm that can be used to improve a human operator's control of complex dynamic machines and achieve tasks that would otherwise be challenging, or impossible, for the user on their own. Our method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Alexander Broad , Ian Abraham , Todd Murphey , Brenna Argall

In this work, we explore finite-dimensional linear representations of nonlinear dynamical systems by restricting the Koopman operator to an invariant subspace. The Koopman operator is an infinite-dimensional linear operator that evolves…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Steven L. Brunton , Bingni W. Brunton , Joshua L. Proctor , J. Nathan Kutz