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This paper presents Residual Koopman MPC (RK-MPC), a Koopman-based, data-driven model predictive control framework for quadruped locomotion that improves prediction fidelity while preserving real-time tractability. RK-MPC augments a nominal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Sriram S. K. S. Narayanan , Umesh Vaidya

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

Koopman Model Predictive Control (MPC) uses a lifted linear predictor to efficiently handle constrained nonlinear systems. While constraint satisfaction and (practical) asymptotic stability have been studied, explicit guarantees of local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Xu Shang , Jorge Cortés , Yang Zheng

This paper introduces a Koopman-enhanced distributed switched model predictive control (SMPC) framework for safe and scalable navigation of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments with moving obstacles. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Ali Azarbahram , Chrystian Pool Yuca Huanca , Gian Paolo Incremona , Patrizio Colaneri

Mobile robot navigation can be challenged by system uncertainty. For example, ground friction may vary abruptly causing slipping, and noisy sensor data can lead to inaccurate feedback control. Traditional model-based methods may be limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Xiaobin Zhang , Mohamed Karim Bouafoura , Lu Shi , Konstantinos Karydis

This paper presents a data-driven model predictive control framework for mobile robots navigating in dynamic environments, leveraging Koopman operator theory. Unlike the conventional Koopman-based approaches that focus on the linearization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Mohammad Abtahi , Navid Mojahed , Shima Nazari

Nonlinear dynamics bring difficulties to controller design for control-affine systems such as tractor-trailer vehicles, especially when the parameters in the dynamics are unknown. To address this constraint, we propose a derivative-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Zehao Wang , Han Zhang , Jingchuan Wang

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

Learning and synthesizing stabilizing controllers for unknown nonlinear control systems is a challenging problem for real-world and industrial applications. Koopman operator theory allows one to analyze nonlinear systems through the lens of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Vrushabh Zinage , Efstathios Bakolas

We present the first general stability results for nonlinear offset-free model predictive control (MPC). Despite over twenty years of active research, the offset-free MPC literature has not shaken the assumption of closed-loop stability for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Steven J. Kuntz , James B. Rawlings

This study presents an innovative approach to Model Predictive Control (MPC) by leveraging the powerful combination of Koopman theory and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). By transforming nonlinear dynamical systems into a…

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

This paper presents a study of the Koopman operator theory and its application to optimal control of a multi-robot system. The Koopman operator, while operating on a set of observation functions of the state vector of a nonlinear system,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Gang Tao , Qianhong Zhao

The Koopman operator theory is an increasingly popular formalism of dynamical systems theory which enables analysis and prediction of the nonlinear dynamics from measurement data. Building on the recent development of the Koopman model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-08 Hassan Arbabi , Milan Korda , Igor Mezic

This paper proposes a novel Kernelized Data-Driven Predictive Control (KDPC) scheme for robust, offset-free tracking of nonlinear systems. Our computationally efficient hybrid approach separates the prediction: (1) kernel ridge regression…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Mahmood Mazare , Hossein Ramezani

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

The Koopman operator is a linear operator that describes the evolution of scalar observables (i.e., measurement functions of the states) in an infinitedimensional Hilbert space. This operator theoretic point of view lifts the dynamics of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Gregory Snyder , Zhuoyuan Song

We propose a fully data-driven, Koopman-based framework for statistically robust control of discrete-time nonlinear systems with linear embeddings. Establishing a connection between the Koopman operator and contraction theory, it offers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Koki Hirano , Hiroyasu Tsukamoto

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

In vehicle trajectory tracking tasks, the simplest approach is the Pure Pursuit (PP) Control. However, this single-point preview tracking strategy fails to consider vehicle model constraints, compromising driving safety. Model Predictive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yonghao Fu , Cheng Hu , Haokun Xiong , Zhanpeng Bao , Wenyuan Du , Edoardo Ghignone , Michele Magno , Lei Xie , Hongye Su

This paper presents a new Lyapunov-based nonlinear model predictive controller (LNMPC) for the attitude control problem of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which is essential for their functioning operation. The controller is designed based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Duy Nam Bui , Thi Thanh Van Nguyen , Manh Duong Phung