structure [3]. However, these limits could be considered less burdensome if new technologies, such as optical strain gauges [6-8], are adopted.A variety of modal control algorithms has been specifically developed for civil engineering structures [10,11], and mechanical [5] and aerospace systems [15,18]. How-ever, the great potential of the independent modal space control (IMSC) technique has not been fully exploited yet, mainly because of problems related to spillover effects. A few works have suggested containing spillover effects by using modal filters on measurements. This can be achieved by using filters on signals [3,21,25]orusingmodalsensors [23,24]. A trade-off between these two approaches can be foundin [8]and[26]. Unfortunately, although these approaches can reduce observation spillover, control spillover still remains.A few works [9,16,17] have studied the dependence of spillover effects on the mutual positions of actuators and sensors when IMSC is applied. However, these studies are