Stability Guarantees for Data-Driven Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems via Approximate Koopman Embeddings

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Auteurs principaux: Taghieh, Amin, Park, SangWoo
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author Taghieh, Amin
Park, SangWoo
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Park, SangWoo
contents 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 under which data-driven MPC, applied directly to input-output data from a nonlinear system, yields practical exponential stability. The key insight is that the existence of an approximate Koopman linear embedding certifies that the nonlinear data can be interpreted as noisy data from a linear time-invariant system, enabling the application of existing robust stability theories. Crucially, the Koopman embedding serves only as a theoretical certificate; the controller itself operates on raw nonlinear data without knowledge of the lifting functions. We further show that the proportional structure of the embedding residual can be exploited to obtain an ultimate bound that depends only on the irreducible offset, rather than the worst-case embedding error. The framework is demonstrated on a synchronous generator connected to an infinite bus, for which we construct an explicit physics-informed embedding with error bounds.
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spellingShingle Stability Guarantees for Data-Driven Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems via Approximate Koopman Embeddings
Taghieh, Amin
Park, SangWoo
Systems and Control
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 under which data-driven MPC, applied directly to input-output data from a nonlinear system, yields practical exponential stability. The key insight is that the existence of an approximate Koopman linear embedding certifies that the nonlinear data can be interpreted as noisy data from a linear time-invariant system, enabling the application of existing robust stability theories. Crucially, the Koopman embedding serves only as a theoretical certificate; the controller itself operates on raw nonlinear data without knowledge of the lifting functions. We further show that the proportional structure of the embedding residual can be exploited to obtain an ultimate bound that depends only on the irreducible offset, rather than the worst-case embedding error. The framework is demonstrated on a synchronous generator connected to an infinite bus, for which we construct an explicit physics-informed embedding with error bounds.
title Stability Guarantees for Data-Driven Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems via Approximate Koopman Embeddings
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17089