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This work presents a new sufficient condition for synthesizing nonlinear controllers that yield bounded closed-loop tracking error transients despite the presence of unmatched uncertainties that are concurrently being learned online. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Samuel G. Gessow , Brett T. Lopez

Nonlinearity presents a significant challenge in problems involving dynamical systems, prompting the exploration of various linearization techniques, including the well-known Carleman Linearization. In this paper, we introduce the Koopman…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Dongwei Shi , Xiu Yang

Over the past decades, the Koopman operator has been widely applied in data-driven control, yet its theoretical foundations remain underexplored. This paper establishes a unified framework to address the robust stabilization problem in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Yicheng Lin , Bingxian Wu , Nan Bai , Zhiyong Sun , Yunxiao Ren , Chuanze Chen , Zhisheng Duan

Synchronization is an important dynamical phenomenon in coupled nonlinear systems, which has been studied extensively in recent years. However, analysis focused on individual orbits seems hard to extend to complex systems while a global…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-04 Jing Hu , Yueheng Lan

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

We propose a novel framework for learning stabilizable nonlinear dynamical systems for continuous control tasks in robotics. The key contribution is a control-theoretic regularizer for dynamics fitting rooted in the notion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Sumeet Singh , Spencer M. Richards , Vikas Sindhwani , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine , Marco Pavone

We introduce two novel generalizations of the Koopman operator method of nonlinear dynamic modeling. Each of these generalizations leads to greatly improved predictive performance without sacrificing a unique trait of Koopman methods: the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Span Spanbauer , Ian Hunter

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

In this paper, we provide a systematic approach for the design of stabilizing feedback controllers for nonlinear control systems using the Koopman operator framework. The Koopman operator approach provides a linear representation for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Bowen Huang , Xu Ma , Umesh Vaidya

In this paper, we consider the problem of quantifying controllability and observability of a nonlinear discrete time dynamical system. We introduce the Koopman operator as a canonical representation of the system and apply a lifting…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Enoch Yeung , Zhiyuan Liu , Nathan O. Hodas

Koopman operator theory has gained significant attention in recent years for identifying discrete-time nonlinear systems by embedding them into an infinite-dimensional linear vector space. However, providing stability guarantees while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Ruikun Zhou , Yiming Meng , Zhexuan Zeng , Jun Liu

In this paper, we systematically derive a finite set of Koopman based observables to construct a lifted linear state space model that describes the rigid body dynamics based on the dual quaternion representation. In general, the Koopman…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Vrushabh Zinage , Efstathios Bakolas

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

Nonlinear Negative Imaginary (NI) systems arise in various engineering applications, such as controlling flexible structures and air vehicles. However, unlike linear NI systems, their theory is not well-developed. In this paper, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-09 M. A. Mabrok , Ilyasse Aksikas , Nader Meskin

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

Finding an embedding space for a linear approximation of a nonlinear dynamical system enables efficient system identification and control synthesis. The Koopman operator theory lays the foundation for identifying the nonlinear-to-linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yunzhu Li , Hao He , Jiajun Wu , Dina Katabi , Antonio Torralba

The Koopman framework proposes a linear representation of finite-dimensional nonlinear systems through a generally infinite-dimensional globally linear embedding. Originally, the Koopman formalism has been derived for autonomous systems. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Lucian Cristian Iacob , Roland Tóth , Maarten Schoukens

A majority of methods from dynamical systems analysis, especially those in applied settings, rely on Poincar\'e's geometric picture that focuses on "dynamics of states". While this picture has fueled our field for a century, it has shown…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Marko Budišić , Ryan M. Mohr , Igor Mezić

In this paper, we study how the Koopman operator framework can be combined with kernel methods to effectively control nonlinear dynamical systems. While kernel methods have typically large computational requirements, we show how random…

Data-driven techniques for analysis, modeling, and control of complex dynamical systems are on the uptake. Koopman theory provides the theoretical foundation for the popular kernel extended dynamic mode decomposition (kEDMD). In this work,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Lea Bold , Friedrich M. Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann