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Seminar on Control Theory and Nonlinear Filtering
Discovering governing equations from data: Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems
Discovering governing equations from data: Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems
Organizer
Speaker
Yangtianze Tao
Time
Monday, April 24, 2023 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Venue
Online
Abstract
The ability to discover physical laws and governing equations from data is one of humankind’s greatest intellectual achievements. A quantitative understanding of dynamic constraints and balances in nature has facilitated rapid development of knowledge and enabled advanced technological achievements, including aircraft, combustion engines, satellites, and electrical power. In this presentation, we present sparsity-promoting techniques and machine learning with nonlinear dynamical systems to discover governing physical equations from measurement data. The only assumption about the structure of the model is that there are only a few important terms that govern the dynamics, so that the equations are sparse in the space of possible functions; this assumption holds for many physical systems. In particular, we use sparse regression to determine the fewest terms in the dynamic governing equations required to accurately represent the data. The resulting models are parsimonious, balancing model complexity with descriptive ability while avoiding overfitting.