Abstract
In this paper, results are presented which facilitate the complete exploitation of state feedback in the assignment of the entire closed-loop eigenstructure of multivariable linear systems. These results provide a method for the direct computation of the state-feedback matrix which assigns prescribed Jordan canonical forms, eigenvectors, and generalized eigenvectors to the plant matrices of closed-loop systems. This method is illustrated by assigning the entire closed-loop eigenstructure of a third-order two-input discrete-time system in such a way that the resulting closed-loop system exhibits finite settling time behaviour.