“…The direct data-driven approach has been particularly fruitful for linear systems, where tools from behavioral theory [4] have allowed to express the system trajectories in terms of sufficiently-rich data. This has resulted in the synthesis of feedback stabilizing controllers [5], [6], optimal control laws [7]- [9], predictive controllers [10], [11], network controllers [11], [12], control experiment design [13], optimization-based controllers [14], and recent extensions to nonlinear systems [15], [16]. Here we focus on direct data-driven control of bilinear systems as a building block for future work on more complex nonlinear systems.…”