The reference input is one of causes having an effect upon the steady-state error. This paper dcscribes a design method of a digital controller to remove the stcadyftate error caused by the reference input. According to the types of the reference input, new system equations to remove the reference input term from controlled system equations are derived first. And, using the optimal control theory the control law is obtained to minimize the output of the new system. Based on the state-space approach, the proposed control algo-rithm can be applied to time-invariant linear systems including the unstable systems.