“…Among these, optimal control techniques (LQR, LQG, H∞, etc) offer several advantages, such as possibility of trade-off between achievable vibration attenuation and required control inputs, simultaneous suppression of multiple modes, unified and systematic controller design procedure for MIMO systems. Although optimal control techniques offer obvious advantages and have been used for active vibration control (Chang et al., 2002; Iorga et al., 2008, 2009; Jiang and Li, 2011; Kumar, 2013; Qiu and Ling, 2014; Sethi et al., 2011; Vasques and Dias Rodrigues, 2006; Xie et al., 2004), a major limitation in their application has been the phenomena of spillover (Preumont, 2011; Vasques and Dias Rodrigues, 2006). Unlike some control techniques (velocity feedback, positive position feedback, etc) for which asymptotic stability against spillover can be guaranteed by using collocated actuator/sensor pairs; use of collocated actuator/sensor pairs doesn’t offer any distinguished advantage for avoiding spillover with optimal controllers.…”