“…The problem is tackled in this paper using a parametrization of the class of linear state feedback controllers which assign a set of desired self-conjugate eigenvalues to the closed-loop system (Fahmy and O'Reilly 1982, 1983a, Roppenecker 1983, 1986. For ease of exposition, we make five simplifying though inessential assumptions, that the model to be reduced is least-order, that the algebraic multiplicity of the left half-plane transmission zeros is equal to their geometric multiplicity, that the observable closedloop eigenvalues are assigned distinct values not equal to the corresponding openloop eigenvalues or to the left half-plane transmission zeros.…”