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Koopman operators and transfer operators represent nonlinear dynamics in state space through its induced action on linear spaces of observables and measures, respectively. This framework enables the use of linear operator theory for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Claire Valva , Dimitrios Giannakis

A high order optimal control strategy implemented in the Koopman operator framework is proposed in this work. The new technique exploits the Koopman representation of the solution of the equations of motion to develop an energy optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Simone Servadio , Roberto Armellin , Richard Linares

In this work, we propose a meta-learning-based Koopman modeling and predictive control approach for nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties. An adaptive deep meta-learning-based modeling approach, called Meta Adaptive Koopman…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Minghao Han , Kiwan Wong , Adrian Wing-Keung Law , Xunyuan Yin

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

Accurate modeling and control of autonomous vehicles remain a fundamental challenge due to the nonlinear and coupled nature of vehicle dynamics. While Koopman operator theory offers a framework for deploying powerful linear control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Mohammad Abtahi , Farhang Motallebi Araghi , Navid Mojahed , Shima Nazari

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

Given the complexity and nonlinearity inherent in traffic dynamics within vehicular platoons, there exists a critical need for a modeling methodology with high accuracy while concurrently achieving physical analyzability. Currently, there…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Kexin Tian , Haotian Shi , Yang Zhou , Sixu Li

This paper presents a model-based reinforcement learning (RL) framework for optimal closed-loop control of nonlinear robotic systems. The proposed approach learns linear lifted dynamics through Koopman operator theory and integrates the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Wenjian Hao , Yuxuan Fang , Zehui Lu , Shaoshuai Mou

In this work, we propose to apply the recently developed Koopman operator techniques to explore the global phase space of a nonlinear system from time-series data. In particular, we address the problem of identifying various invariant…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Sai Pushpak Nandanoori , Subhrajit Sinha , Enoch Yeung

In Koopman operator theory, a finite-dimensional nonlinear system is transformed into an infinite but linear system using a set of observable functions. However, manually selecting observable functions that span the invariant subspace of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Yuhuang Meng , Jianguo Huang , Yue Qiu

Real-world time series are characterized by intrinsic non-stationarity that poses a principal challenge for deep forecasting models. While previous models suffer from complicated series variations induced by changing temporal distribution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yong Liu , Chenyu Li , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Koopman operators are of infinite dimension and capture the characteristics of nonlinear dynamics in a lifted global linear manner. The finite data-driven approximation of Koopman operators results in a class of linear predictors, useful…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Xinglong Zhang , Wei Pan , Riccardo Scattolini , Shuyou Yu , Xin Xu

Controlling soft continuum manipulator arms is difficult due to their infinite degrees of freedom, nonlinear material properties, and large deflections under loading. This paper presents a data-driven approach to identifying soft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Daniel Bruder , Xun Fu , R. Brent Gillespie , C. David Remy , Ram Vasudevan

Approximating nonlinear systems as linear ones is a common workaround to apply control tools tailored for linear systems. This motivates our present work where we developed a data-driven model predictive controller (MPC) based on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Adriano del Río , Christoph Stoeffler

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

In this paper, we develop the Koopman operator theory for dynamical systems with symmetry. In particular, we investigate how the Koopman operator and eigenfunctions behave under the action of the symmetry group of the underlying dynamical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Subhrajit Sinha , Sai P. Nandanoori , Enoch Yeung

Research on Koopman operator theory has focused on three key areas for several decades: the mathematical structure of the Koopman eigenfunction space, the basis of this space, and the ability to represent nonlinear dynamics as linear. This…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Ido Cohen , Eli Appleboim

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

The mathematical properties and data-driven learning of the Koopman operator, which represents nonlinear dynamics as a linear mapping on a properly defined functional spaces, have become key problems in nonlinear system identification and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Wentao Tang

Most modern reinforcement learning algorithms optimize a cumulative single-step cost along a trajectory. The optimized motions are often 'unnatural', representing, for example, behaviors with sudden accelerations that waste energy and lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Motoya Ohnishi , Isao Ishikawa , Kendall Lowrey , Masahiro Ikeda , Sham Kakade , Yoshinobu Kawahara