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In this article, we propose a new filtering algorithm based in the Koopman operator, showing that a nonlinear filtering problem can be seen as an equivalent problem where the dynamics is infinite dimensional, but linear. Using Extended…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Diego Olguín , Axel Osses , Héctor Ramírez

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

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

Deep neural networks can be trained to be efficient and effective controllers for dynamical systems; however, the mechanics of deep neural networks are complex and difficult to guarantee. This work presents a general approach for providing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Kyle D. Julian , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

We provide a framework for learning of dynamical systems rooted in the concept of representations and Koopman operators. The interplay between the two leads to the full description of systems that can be represented linearly in a finite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Igor Mezic

A high order optimal control strategy implemented in the Koopman operator framework is proposed in this work. The new technique exploits the Koopman representation of the solution of the equations of motion to develop an energy optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Simone Servadio , Roberto Armellin , Richard Linares

Koopman operator theory yields powerful tools for modeling, analysis, and control of nonlinear dynamical systems. Prominently, linear time-invariant (LTI) Koopman representations have been proposed to enable the application of linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Johannes Heeg , Karl Worthmann

A popular technique used to obtain linear representations of nonlinear systems is the so-called Koopman approach, where the nonlinear dynamics are lifted to a (possibly infinite dimensional) linear space through nonlinear functions called…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Lucian Cristian Iacob , Roland Tóth , Maarten Schoukens

Transfer and Koopman operator methods offer a framework for representing complex, nonlinear dynamical systems via linear transformations, enabling a deeper understanding of the underlying dynamics. The spectra of these operators provide…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Gary Froyland , Kevin Kühl

A learning method is proposed for Koopman operator-based models with the goal of improving closed-loop control behavior. A neural network-based approach is used to discover a space of observables in which nonlinear dynamics is linearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Daisuke Uchida , Karthik Duraisamy

The Koopman operator has gained significant attention in recent years for its ability to verify evolutionary properties of continuous-time nonlinear systems by lifting state variables into an infinite-dimensional linear vector space. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Yiming Meng , Ruikun Zhou , Melkior Ornik , Jun Liu

Transfer operators offer linear representations and global, physically meaningful features of nonlinear dynamical systems. Discovering transfer operators, such as the Koopman operator, require careful crafted dictionaries of observables,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Tahiya Salam , Alice Kate Li , M. Ani Hsieh

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 framework enables global analysis of nonlinear systems through its inherent linearity. This study aims to clarify spectral properties of the Koopman operators for nonlinear systems with control inputs. To this end, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Natsuki Katayama , Alexandre Mauroy , Yoshihiko Susuki

The discovery of linear embedding is the key to the synthesis of linear control techniques for nonlinear systems. In recent years, while Koopman operator theory has become a prominent approach for learning these linear embeddings through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Rajpal Singh , Chandan Kumar Sah , Jishnu Keshavan

We call a system super-linearizable if it admits finite-dimensional embedding as a linear system -- known as a finite-dimensional Koopman embedding; said otherwise, if its dynamics can be linearized by adding a finite set of observables. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Mohamed-Ali Belabbas

This paper uses data-driven operator theoretic approaches to explore the global phase space of a dynamical system. We defined conditions for discovering new invariant subspaces in the state space of a dynamical system starting from an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Sai Pushpak Nandanoori , Subhrajit Sinha , Enoch Yeung

Data-driven models for nonlinear dynamical systems based on approximating the underlying Koopman operator or generator have proven to be successful tools for forecasting, feature learning, state estimation, and control. It has become well…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Samuel E. Otto , Sebastian Peitz , Clarence W. Rowley

In this paper, we consider the design of data-driven predictive controllers for nonlinear systems from input-output data via linear-in-control input Koopman lifted models. Instead of identifying and simulating a Koopman model to predict…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Thomas de Jong , Valentina Breschi , Maarten Schoukens , Mircea Lazar

Controlling soft continuum manipulator arms is difficult due to their infinite degrees of freedom, nonlinear material properties, and large deflections under loading. This paper presents a data-driven approach to identifying soft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Daniel Bruder , Xun Fu , R. Brent Gillespie , C. David Remy , Ram Vasudevan