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Gas turbine engines are complex and highly nonlinear dynamical systems. Deriving their physics-based models can be challenging because it requires performance characteristics that are not always available, often leading to many simplifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 David Grasev

Koopman-based learning methods can potentially be practical and powerful tools for dynamical robotic systems. However, common methods to construct Koopman representations seek to learn lifted linear models that cannot capture nonlinear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Carl Folkestad , Joel W. Burdick

Although Koopman operators provide a global linearization for autonomous dynamical systems, nonautonomous systems are not globally linear in the inputs. State (or output) feedback controller design therefore remains nonconvex in typical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Taha Ondogan , Ran Jing , Andrew P. Sabelhaus , Roberto Tron

Koopman analysis provides a general framework from which to analyze a nonlinear dynamical system in terms of a linear operator acting on an infinite-dimensional observable space. This theoretical framework provides a rigorous underpinning…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Dan Wilson

This paper continues in the work from arXiv:1903.06103 [math.OC] where a nonlinear vehicle model was approximated in a purely data-driven manner by a linear predictor of higher order, namely the Koopman operator. The vehicle system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Vít Cibulka , Milan Korda , Tomáš Haniš , Martin Hromčík

The Koopman operator allows for handling nonlinear systems through a (globally) linear representation. In general, the operator is infinite-dimensional - necessitating finite approximations - for which there is no overarching framework.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-23 Petar Bevanda , Stefan Sosnowski , Sandra Hirche

This paper presents a generalizable methodology for data-driven identification of nonlinear dynamics that bounds the model error in terms of the prediction horizon and the magnitude of the derivatives of the system states. Using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-03 Giorgos Mamakoukas , Maria L. Castano , Xiaobo Tan , Todd D. Murphey

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

Achieving rapid and time-deterministic stabilization for complex systems characterized by strong nonlinearities and parametric uncertainties presents a significant challenge. Traditional model-based control relies on precise system models,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Yue Wu

This paper studies the problem of output regulation for a class of nonlinear systems experiencing matched input disturbances. It is assumed that the disturbance signal is generated by an external autonomous dynamical system. First, we show…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Bart Kieboom , Maria Bartzioka , Matin Jafarian

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

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

We propose the application of Koopman operator theory for the design of stabilizing feedback controller for a nonlinear control system. The proposed approach is data-driven and relies on the use of time-series data generated from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-24 Bowen Huang , Xu Ma , Umesh Vaidya

The Koopman operator serves as the theoretical backbone for machine learning of dynamical control systems, where the operator is heuristically approximated by extended dynamic mode decomposition (EDMD). In this paper, we propose SafEDMD, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Robin Strässer , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann , Julian Berberich , Frank Allgöwer

We exploit the key idea that nonlinear system identification is equivalent to linear identification of the socalled Koopman operator. Instead of considering nonlinear system identification in the state space, we obtain a novel linear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Alexandre Mauroy , Jorge Goncalves

In this paper, a fixed-time safe control problem is investigated for an uncertain high-order nonlinear pure-feedback system with state constraints. A new nonlinear transformation function is firstly proposed to handle both the constrained…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Chaoqun Guo , Jiangping Hu , Jiasheng Hao , Sergej Celikovsky , Xiaoming Hu

Soft robots are challenging to model due in large part to the nonlinear properties of soft materials. Fortunately, this softness makes it possible to safely observe their behavior under random control inputs, making them amenable to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Daniel Bruder , C. David Remy , Ram Vasudevan

This work focuses on developing a data-driven framework using Koopman operator theory for system identification and linearization of nonlinear systems for control. Our proposed method presents a deep learning framework with recursive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Madhur Tiwari , George Nehma , Bethany Lusch

Koopman operator theory provides a powerful framework for representing nonlinear dynamics through a linear operator acting on lifted observables, enabling the use of linear control techniques for nonlinear systems. However, Koopman models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chandan Kumar Sah , Rajpal Singh , Jishnu Keshavan

Koopman linear representations have become a popular tool for control design of nonlinear systems, yet it remains unclear when such representations are exact. In this paper, we establish sufficient and necessary conditions under which a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Xu Shang , Masih Haseli , Jorge Cortés , Yang Zheng