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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

Discovering a suitable coordinate transformation for nonlinear systems enables the construction of simpler models, facilitating prediction, control, and optimization for complex nonlinear systems. To that end, Koopman operator theory offers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Pawan Goyal , Süleyman Yıldız , Peter Benner

A popular technique used to obtain linear representations of nonlinear systems is the so-called Koopman approach, where the nonlinear dynamics are lifted to a (possibly infinite dimensional) linear space through nonlinear functions called…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Lucian Cristian Iacob , Roland Tóth , Maarten Schoukens

In reinforcement learning, the performance of learning agents is highly sensitive to the choice of time discretization. Agents acting at high frequencies have the best control opportunities, along with some drawbacks, such as possible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Luca Sabbioni , Luca Al Daire , Lorenzo Bisi , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli

The aim of this work is to develop a deep learning method for solving high-dimensional stochastic control problems based on the Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman (HJB) equation and physics-informed learning. Our approach is to parameterize the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Zhe Jiao , Wantao Jia , Weiqiu Zhu

Regularized Markov Decision Processes serve as models of sequential decision making under uncertainty wherein the decision maker has limited information processing capacity and/or aversion to model ambiguity. With functional approximation,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jiachen Xi , Alfredo Garcia , Petar Momcilovic

Data-driven neural Koopman operator theory has emerged as a powerful tool for linearizing and controlling nonlinear robotic systems. However, the performance of these data-driven models fundamentally depends on the trade-off between sample…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Abulikemu Abuduweili , Yuyang Pang , Feihan Li , Changliu Liu

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

The impact of softmax on the value function itself in reinforcement learning (RL) is often viewed as problematic because it leads to sub-optimal value (or Q) functions and interferes with the contraction properties of the Bellman operator.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Zhao Song , Ronald E. Parr , Lawrence Carin

This paper introduces an input-output bilinear Koopman realization with an optimization algorithm of lifting functions. For nonlinear systems with inputs, Koopman-based modeling is effective because the Koopman operator enables a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Shuichi Yahagi , Ansei Yonezawa , Heisei Yonezawa , Hiroki Seto , Itsuro Kajiwara

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm named synchronous integral Q-learning, which is based on synchronous policy iteration, to solve the continuous-time infinite horizon optimal control problems of input-affine system dynamics. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Lei Guo , Han Zhao

We study the problem of optimal portfolio selection under stochastic volatility within a continuous time reinforcement learning framework with portfolio constraints. Exploration is modeled through entropy-regularized relaxed controls, where…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-27 Thai Nguyen , Pertiny Nkuize

We introduce a reinforcement learning algorithm designed to identify the fixed points of a given quantum operation. The method iteratively constructs the unitary transformation that maps the computational basis onto the basis of fixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 María Laura Olivera-Atencio , Jesús Casado-Pascual , Denis Lacroix

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

Solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is important in many domains including control, robotics and economics. Especially for continuous control, solving this differential equation and its extension the Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Michael Lutter , Boris Belousov , Shie Mannor , Dieter Fox , Animesh Garg , Jan Peters

This work proposes a novel numerical scheme for solving the high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with a functional hierarchical tensor ansatz. We consider the setting of stochastic control, whereby one applies control to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Xun Tang , Nan Sheng , Lexing Ying

We consider a new family of operators for reinforcement learning with the goal of alleviating the negative effects and becoming more robust to approximation or estimation errors. Various theoretical results are established, which include…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-29 Yingdong Lu , Mark S. Squillante , Chai Wah Wu

The generalization of the Koopman operator to systems with control input and the derivation of a nonlinear fundamental lemma are two open problems that play a key role in the development of data-driven control methods for nonlinear systems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Mircea Lazar

This paper proposes an operator-theoretic framework that recasts the minimal value function of a nonlinear optimal control problem as an abstract bilinear form on a suitable function space. The resulting bilinear form is shown to satisfy an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Tobias Breiten , Bernhard Höveler

Data-driven models for nonlinear dynamical systems based on approximating the underlying Koopman operator or generator have proven to be successful tools for forecasting, feature learning, state estimation, and control. It has become well…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Samuel E. Otto , Sebastian Peitz , Clarence W. Rowley