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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

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

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

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

Data-driven model predictive control based on Willems' fundamental lemma has proven effective for linear systems, but extending stability guarantees to nonlinear systems remains an open challenge. In this paper, we establish conditions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Amin Taghieh , SangWoo Park

This paper proposes a method to identify a Koopman model of a feedback-controlled system given a known controller. The Koopman operator allows a nonlinear system to be rewritten as an infinite-dimensional linear system by viewing it in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Steven Dahdah , James Richard Forbes

Koopman analysis provides a general framework from which to analyze a nonlinear dynamical system in terms of a linear operator acting on an infinite-dimensional observable space. This theoretical framework provides a rigorous underpinning…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Dan Wilson

This paper studies the problem of output regulation for a class of nonlinear systems experiencing matched input disturbances. It is assumed that the disturbance signal is generated by an external autonomous dynamical system. First, we show…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Bart Kieboom , Maria Bartzioka , Matin Jafarian

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

The Koopman operator has become an essential tool for data-driven approximation of dynamical (control) systems, e.g., via extended dynamic mode decomposition. Despite its popularity, convergence results and, in particular, error bounds are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Feliks Nüske , Sebastian Peitz , Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Feihan Li , Abulikemu Abuduweili , Yifan Sun , Rui Chen , Weiye Zhao , Changliu Liu

We provide a data-driven framework for optimal control of a continuous-time stochastic dynamical system. The proposed framework relies on the linear operator theory involving linear Perron-Frobenius (P-F) and Koopman operators. Our first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Umesh Vaidya , Duvan Tellez-Castro

Data-driven safety verification of robotic systems often relies on zonotopic reachability analysis due to its scalability and computational efficiency. However, for nonlinear systems, these methods can become overly conservative, especially…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Alireza Naderi Akhormeh , Ahmad Hafez , Abdulla Fawzy , Amr Alanwar

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Lu Shi , Konstantinos Karydis

In this paper, we propose a novel controller design approach for unknown nonlinear systems using the Koopman operator. In particular, we use the recently proposed stability- and feedback-oriented extended dynamic mode decomposition…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Robin Strässer , Julian Berberich , Frank Allgöwer

This paper investigates the problem of data-driven stabilization for linear discrete-time switched systems with unknown switching dynamics. In the absence of noise, a data-based state feedback stabilizing controller can be obtained by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Wenjie Liu , Yifei Li , Jian Sun , Gang Wang , Jie Chen

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

This paper presents a distributed data-driven control to regulate the voltage in an alternate current microgrid (MG). Following the hierarchical control frame for MGs, a secondary control for voltage is designed with a data-driven strategy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Vladimir Toroa , Duvan Tellez-Castro , Eduardo Mojica-Nava , Naly Rakoto-Ravalontsalama

We present a data-driven nonlinear predictive control approach for the class of discrete-time multi-input multi-output feedback linearizable nonlinear systems. The scheme uses a non-parametric predictive model based only on input and noisy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Mohammad Alsalti , Victor G. Lopez , Julian Berberich , Frank Allgöwer , Matthias A. Müller

The Koopman and Perron Frobenius transport operators are fundamentally changing how we approach dynamical systems, providing linear representations for even strongly nonlinear dynamics. Although there is tremendous potential benefit of such…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Eurika Kaiser , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton