“…For most of the available controller synthesis methods for periodic systems, existence of a periodically time-varying LF for the closed-loop dynamics can be derived, either directly or by the converse result in Jiang and Wang (2002). Consider methods based on the periodic Riccati equation Bittanti et al (1991), Varga (2008), output feedback schemes De Souza and Trofino (2000), H 2 synthesis for the case of linear periodic systems with polytopic uncertainties Farges et al (2007), eigenvalue assignment Brunovský (1970), Kabamba (1986) Email addresses: n.athanasopoulos@tue.nl (Nikolaos Athanasopoulos), m.lazar@tue.nl (Mircea Lazar), christoph.boehm@hilti.com (Christoph Böhm), frank.allgower@ist.uni-stuttgart.de (Frank Allgöwer).…”