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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

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 this paper, a unified batch-online learning approach is introduced to learn a linear representation of nonlinear system dynamics using the Koopman operator. The presented system modeling approach leverages a novel incremental…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Majid Mazouchi , Subramanya Nageshrao , Hamidreza Modares

This paper introduces the Koopman Control Family (KCF), a mathematical framework for modeling general (not necessarily control-affine) discrete-time nonlinear control systems with the aim of providing a solid theoretical foundation for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Masih Haseli , Jorge Cortés

In recent years data-driven analysis of dynamical systems has attracted a lot of attention and transfer operator techniques, namely, Perron-Frobenius and Koopman operators are being used almost ubiquitously. Since data is always obtained in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Subhrajit Sinha , Sai Pushpak Nandanoori , Jan Drgona , Draguna Vrabie

This paper presents a class of linear predictors for nonlinear controlled dynamical systems. The basic idea is to lift the nonlinear dynamics into a higher dimensional space where its evolution is approximately linear. In an uncontrolled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Milan Korda , Igor Mezić

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

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 present a novel technique for solving the problem of safe control for a general class of nonlinear, control-affine systems subject to parametric model uncertainty. Invoking Lyapunov analysis and the notion of fixed-time stability (FxTS),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Mitchell Black , Ehsan Arabi , Dimitra Panagou

Koopman liftings have been successfully used to learn high dimensional linear approximations for autonomous systems for prediction purposes, or for control systems for leveraging linear control techniques to control nonlinear dynamics. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Haldun Balim , Antoine Aspeel , Zexiang Liu , Necmiye Ozay

Koopman operators, since introduced by the French-born American mathematician Bernard Koopman in 1931, have been employed as a powerful tool for research in various scientific domains, such as ergodic theory, probability theory, geometry,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Wei Zhang , Jr-Shin Li

This paper develops a data-driven safe control framework for linear systems possessing a known strict-feedback structure, but with most plant parameters, external disturbances, and input delay being unknown. By leveraging Koopman operator…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Zhenxu Zhao , Ji Wang , Weiyao Lan

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 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

We propose a neural network-based model for nonlinear dynamics in continuous time that can impose inductive biases on decay rates and/or frequencies. Inductive biases are helpful for training neural networks especially when training data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-27 Tomoharu Iwata , Yoshinobu Kawahara

Data-driven transformations that reformulate nonlinear systems in a linear framework have the potential to enable the prediction, estimation, and control of strongly nonlinear dynamics using linear systems theory. The Koopman operator has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Eurika Kaiser , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

Nonlinear dynamical systems can be made easier to control by lifting them into the space of observable functions, where their evolution is described by the linear Koopman operator. This paper describes how the Koopman operator can be used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Daniel Bruder , Xun Fu , Ram Vasudevan

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

In this paper, we propose an efficient data-driven predictive control approach for general nonlinear processes based on a reduced-order Koopman operator. A Kalman-based sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics method is employed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Xuewen Zhang , Minghao Han , Xunyuan Yin

This paper concerns identification of uncontrolled or closed loop nonlinear systems using a set of trajectories that are generated by the system in a domain of attraction. The objective is to ensure that the trajectories of the identified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Moad Abudia , Joel A. Rosenfeld , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar