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This report presents the results of a simulation study of the linear model and bilinear model approximations of the Koopman system model of the nonlinear utility functions in optimal control of a 3-robot system. In such a control problem,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Qianhong Zhao , Gang Tao

Modeling of nonlinear behaviors with physical-based models poses challenges. However, Koopman operator maps the original nonlinear system into an infinite-dimensional linear space to achieve global linearization of the nonlinear system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Hao Chen , Xiangkun He , Shuo Cheng , Chen Lv

In this work, we propose a novel flow field-based motion planning method that drives a robot from any initial state to a desired reference trajectory such that it converges to the trajectory's end point. Despite demonstrated efficacy in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Alice Kate Li , Thales C Silva , Victoria Edwards , Vijay Kumar , M. Ani Hsieh

Learning and synthesizing stabilizing controllers for unknown nonlinear control systems is a challenging problem for real-world and industrial applications. Koopman operator theory allows one to analyze nonlinear systems through the lens of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Vrushabh Zinage , Efstathios Bakolas

Representing and predicting high-dimensional and spatiotemporally chaotic dynamical systems remains a fundamental challenge in dynamical systems and machine learning. Although data-driven models can achieve accurate short-term forecasts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Liangyu Su , Jun Shu , Rui Liu , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

This paper presents a novel episodic method to learn a robot's nonlinear dynamics model and an increasingly optimal control sequence for a set of tasks. The method is based on the {\em Koopman operator} approach to nonlinear dynamical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Carl Folkestad , Daniel Pastor , Joel W. Burdick

Constraint handling during tracking operations is at the core of many real-world control implementations and is well understood when dynamic models of the underlying system exist, yet becomes more challenging when data-driven models are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Ye Wang , Yujia Yang , Ye Pu , Chris Manzie

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

This paper introduces new model parameterizations for learning discrete-time dynamical systems from data via the Koopman operator and studies their properties. Whereas most existing works on Koopman learning do not take into account the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Fletcher Fan , Bowen Yi , David Rye , Guodong Shi , Ian R. Manchester

We present an approach to construct approximate Koopman-type decompositions for dynamical systems depending on static or time-varying parameters. Our method simultaneously constructs an invariant subspace and a parametric family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Yue Guo , Milan Korda , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Qianxiao Li

This work represents an initial benchmark of a large-scale soft robot performing physical, collaborative manipulation of a long, extended object with a human partner. The robot consists of a pneumatically-actuated, three-link continuum soft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Dallin L. Cordon , Shaden Moss , Marc Killpack , John L. Salmon

Identifying coordinate transformations that make strongly nonlinear dynamics approximately linear is a central challenge in modern dynamical systems. These transformations have the potential to enable prediction, estimation, and control of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Bethany Lusch , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

This paper presents the results of identification of vehicle dynamics using the Koopman operator. The basic idea is to transform the state space of a nonlinear system (a car in our case) to a higher-dimensional space, using so-called basis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Vit Cibulka , Tomas Hanis , Martin Hromcik

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

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

Soft robots manufactured with flexible materials can be highly compliant and adaptive to their surroundings, which facilitates their application in areas such as dexterous manipulation and environmental exploration. This paper aims at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Renjie Ma , Ziyao Qu , Zhijian Hu , Dong Zhao , Marios M. Polycarpou

To avoid complex constraints of the traditional nonlinear method for tethered space robot (TSR) deployment, this paper proposes a data-driven optimal control framework with an improved deep learning based Koopman operator that could be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Ao Jin , Fan Zhang , Panfeng Huang

Soft-growing robots are innovative devices that feature plant-inspired growth to navigate environments. Thanks to their embodied intelligence of adapting to their surroundings and the latest innovation in actuation and manufacturing, it is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Fabio Stroppa

This paper investigates the impact of approximation error in data-driven optimal control problem of nonlinear systems while using the Koopman operator. While the Koopman operator enables a simplified representation of nonlinear dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Yicheng Lin , Bingxian Wu , Nan Bai , Yunxiao Ren , Zhisheng Duan

Approximating the Koopman operator from data is numerically challenging when many lifting functions are considered. Even low-dimensional systems can yield unstable or ill-conditioned results in a high-dimensional lifted space. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Steven Dahdah , James Richard Forbes