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Koopman operator is a composition operator defined for a dynamical system described by nonlinear differential or difference equation. Although the original system is nonlinear and evolves on a finite-dimensional state space, the Koopman…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Yoshihiko Susuki , Igor Mezic , Fredrik Raak , Takashi Hikihara

Koopman analysis of a general dynamics system provides a linear Koopman operator and an embedded eigenfunction space, enabling the application of standard techniques from linear analysis. However, in practice, deriving exact operators and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Alexander Estornell , Leonard Jung , Alenna Spiro , Mario Sznaier , Michael Everett

The study of mathematical connections between operator-theoretic formulations of classical dynamics and quantum mechanics began at least as early as the 1930s in work of Koopman and von Neumann and was developed in later decades by many…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Dimitrios Giannakis , Michael Montgomery

Koopman operator theory has proven to be a promising approach to nonlinear system identification and global linearization. For nearly a century, there had been no efficient means of calculating the Koopman operator for applied engineering…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Waqas Manzoor , Samir Rawashdeh , Alireza Mohammadi

The global behavior of dynamical systems can be studied by analyzing the eigenvalues and corresponding eigenfunctions of linear operators associated with the system. Two important operators which are frequently used to gain insight into the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Stefan Klus , Christof Schütte

Koopman operator theory offers a rigorous treatment of dynamics and has been emerging as an alternative modeling and learning-based control method across various robotics sub-domains. Due to its ability to represent nonlinear dynamics as a…

Koopman operators provide a linear framework for data-driven analyses of nonlinear dynamical systems, but their infinite-dimensional nature presents major computational challenges. In this article, we offer an introductory guide to Koopman…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Matthew J. Colbrook , Zlatko Drmač , Andrew Horning

Data-driven neural Koopman operator theory has emerged as a powerful tool for linearizing and controlling nonlinear robotic systems. However, the performance of these data-driven models fundamentally depends on the trade-off between sample…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Abulikemu Abuduweili , Yuyang Pang , Feihan Li , Changliu Liu

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

Data-driven spectral analysis of Koopman operators is a powerful tool for understanding numerous real-world dynamical systems, from neuronal activity to variations in sea surface temperature. The Koopman operator acts on a function space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Nicolas Boullé , Matthew J. Colbrook , Gustav Conradie

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

The Koopman operator is a linear but infinite dimensional operator that governs the evolution of scalar observables defined on the state space of an autonomous dynamical system, and is a powerful tool for the analysis and decomposition of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Matthew O. Williams , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Clarence W. Rowley

The Koopman operator is a mathematical tool that allows for a linear description of non-linear systems, but working in infinite dimensional spaces. Dynamic Mode Decomposition and Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition are amongst the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Francesco Zanini , Alessandro Chiuso

This paper proposes a method to identify a Koopman model of a feedback-controlled system given a known controller. The Koopman operator allows a nonlinear system to be rewritten as an infinite-dimensional linear system by viewing it in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Steven Dahdah , James Richard Forbes

This paper tackles the data-driven approximation of unknown dynamical systems using Koopman-operator methods. Given a dictionary of functions, these methods approximate the projection of the action of the operator on the finite-dimensional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Masih Haseli , Jorge Cortés

The Koopman and the Perron-Frobenius operators are increasingly becoming popular in the control of complex nonlinear systems such as in a wide variety of robotics problems and flow control. This is in addition to the wide interest in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-12 Phanindra Tallapragada

We consider Koopman operator theory in the context of nonlinear infinite-dimensional systems, where the operator is defined over a space of bounded continuous functionals. The properties of the Koopman semigroup are described and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Alexandre Mauroy

Koopman operator theory, a powerful framework for discovering the underlying dynamics of nonlinear dynamical systems, was recently shown to be intimately connected with neural network training. In this work, we take the first steps in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Akshunna S. Dogra , William T Redman

Koopman operator theory provides a framework for nonlinear dynamical system analysis and time-series forecasting by mapping dynamics to a space of real-valued measurement functions, enabling a linear operator representation. Despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yitian Zhang , Liheng Ma , Antonios Valkanas , Boris N. Oreshkin , Mark Coates

Kernel transfer operators, which can be regarded as approximations of transfer operators such as the Perron-Frobenius or Koopman operator in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, are defined in terms of covariance and cross-covariance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Stefan Klus , Sebastian Peitz , Ingmar Schuster