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The strong performance of simple neural networks is often attributed to their nonlinear activations. However, a linear view of neural networks makes understanding and controlling networks much more approachable. We draw from a dynamical…
Koopman operator theory has found significant success in learning models of complex, real-world dynamical systems, enabling prediction and control. The greater interpretability and lower computational costs of these models, compared to…
The control of legged robots, particularly humanoid and quadruped robots, presents significant challenges due to their high-dimensional and nonlinear dynamics. While linear systems can be effectively controlled using methods like Model…
Nonlinear dynamical systems can be handily described by the associated Koopman operator, whose action evolves every observable of the system forward in time. Learning the Koopman operator and its spectral decomposition from data is enabled…
This paper presents a novel learning framework to construct Koopman eigenfunctions for unknown, nonlinear dynamics using data gathered from experiments. The learning framework can extract spectral information from the full nonlinear…
Linear dynamical systems are fully characterized by their eigenspectra, accessible directly from the generator of the dynamics. For nonlinear systems governed by partial differential equations, no equivalent theory exists. We introduce Lie…
Koopman operator theory has served as the basis to extract dynamics for nonlinear system modeling and control across settings, including non-holonomic mobile robot control. There is a growing interest in research to derive robustness…
We develop a Koopman operator framework for studying the {computational properties} of dynamical systems. Specifically, we show that the resolvent of the Koopman operator provides a natural abstraction of halting, yielding a ``Koopman…
We present KoopCast, a lightweight yet efficient model for trajectory forecasting in general dynamic environments. Our approach leverages Koopman operator theory, which enables a linear representation of nonlinear dynamics by lifting…
A theoretic framework for dynamics is obtained by transferring dynamics from state space to its dual space. As a result, the linear structure where dynamics are analytically decomposed to subcomponents and invariant subspaces decomposition…
Koopman theory asserts that a nonlinear dynamical system can be mapped to a linear system, where the Koopman operator advances observations of the state forward in time. However, the observable functions that map states to observations are…
In this paper we prove new connections between two frameworks for analysis and control of nonlinear systems: the Koopman operator framework and contraction analysis. Each method, in different ways, provides exact and global analyses of…
This paper presents a Koopman lifting linearization method that is applicable to nonlinear dynamical systems having both stable and unstable regions. It is known that DMD and other standard data-driven methods face a fundamental difficulty…
This paper develops data-driven methods to identify eigenfunctions of the Koopman operator associated to a dynamical system and subspaces that are invariant under the operator. We build on Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition (EDMD), a…
PyKoopman is a Python package for the data-driven approximation of the Koopman operator associated with a dynamical system. The Koopman operator is a principled linear embedding of nonlinear dynamics and facilitates the prediction,…
This paper proposes a mode-in-state contribution factor for a class of nonlinear dynamical systems by utilizing spectral properties of the Koopman operator and sensitivity analysis. Using eigenfunctions of the Koopman operator for a target…
Reachability analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems is a challenging and computationally expensive task. Computing the reachable states for linear systems, in contrast, can often be done efficiently in high dimensions. In this paper, we…
Quantum computation offers potential exponential speedups for simulating certain physical systems, but its application to nonlinear dynamics is inherently constrained by the requirement of unitary evolution. We propose the quantum Koopman…
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…
We apply an operator-theoretic viewpoint to a class of non-smooth dynamical systems that are exposed to event-triggered state resets. The considered benchmark problem is that of a pendulum which receives a downward kick under certain fixed…