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This manuscript presents a novel approach to nonlinear system identification leveraging densely defined Liouville operators and a new "kernel" function that represents an integration functional over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS)…
This manuscript gives a theoretical framework for a new Hilbert space of functions, the so called occupation kernel Hilbert space (OKHS), that operate on collections of signals rather than real or complex numbers. To support this new…
This manuscript presents an algorithm for obtaining an approximation of a nonlinear high order control affine dynamical system. Controlled trajectories of the system are leveraged as the central unit of information via embedding them in…
The role of Liouville operators in the study of dynamical systems through the use of occupation measures have been an active area of research in control theory over the past decade. This manuscript investigates Liouville operators over the…
This paper builds on the theoretical foundations for dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) of control-affine dynamical systems by leveraging the theory of vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs). Specifically, control Liouville…
This paper proposes a fully data-driven approach for optimal control of nonlinear control-affine systems represented by a stochastic diffusion. The focus is on the scenario where both the nonlinear dynamics and stage cost functions are…
The notion of reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) has emerged in system identification during the past decade. In the resulting framework, the impulse response estimation problem is formulated as a regularized optimization defined on an…
The study of Koopman and Liouville operators over reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs) has been gaining considerable interest over the past decade. In particular, these operators represent nonlinear dynamical systems, and through the…
Conventionally, data driven identification and control problems for higher order dynamical systems are solved by augmenting the system state by the derivatives of the output to formulate first order dynamical systems in higher dimensions.…
This paper builds the theoretical foundations for dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) of control-affine dynamical systems by leveraging the theory of vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs). Specifically, control Liouville…
We present an empirical, gradient-based method for solving data-driven stochastic optimal control problems using the theory of kernel embeddings of distributions. By embedding the integral operator of a stochastic kernel in a reproducing…
Reduced modeling of a computationally demanding dynamical system aims at approximating its trajectories, while optimizing the trade-off between accuracy and computational complexity. In this work, we propose to achieve such an approximation…
Motivated by the need of processing functional-valued data, or more general, operatorvalued data, we introduce the notion of the operator reproducing kernel Hilbert space (ORKHS). This space admits a unique operator reproducing kernel which…
The Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), which is arguably the most classical problem in control theory, was recently related to kernel methods in (Aubin-Frankowski, SICON, 2021) for finite dimensional systems. We show that this result extends…
This paper presents a new technique for norm-convergent dynamic mode decomposition of deterministic systems. The developed method utilizes recent results on singular dynamic mode decomposition where it is shown that by appropriate selection…
This paper presents a novel operator-theoretic approach for optimal control of nonlinear stochastic systems within reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Our learning framework leverages data samples of system dynamics and stage cost functions,…
In this work, we consider the problem of learning nonlinear operators that correspond to discrete-time nonlinear dynamical systems with inputs. Given an initial state and a finite input trajectory, such operators yield a finite output…
We consider optimal control problems for discrete-time random dynamical systems, finding unique perturbations that provoke maximal responses of statistical properties of the system. We treat systems whose transfer operator has an $L^2$…
Continuous-time stochastic processes underlie many natural and engineered systems. In healthcare, autonomous driving, and industrial control, direct interaction with the environment is often unsafe or impractical, motivating offline…
Kernel methods approximate nonlinear maps in a data-driven manner by projecting the target map onto a finite-dimensional Hilbert space called the solution space. Traditionally, this space is a subspace of a fixed ambient reproducing kernel…