For a long time, the development of PID controller design methods has been the goal of the control community. Despite that a manual model-free tuning of controllers is still the most commonly used PID design method in the industry.

A rational way to design a controller is to derive a process model and a collection of requirements on the closed loop. PID controller design is a trade-off between conflicting criteria, such as load disturbance attenuation, set-point tracking, robustness, and noise sensitivity. It would be desirable to have a design method which capture engineering criteria such as load disturbance response, robustness to model uncertainties, rejection of measurement noise, and set point tracking. Traditional tuning rules in PID control do not consider all of these aspects in a balanced way which is a considerable drawback.

To address all these drawbacks, an original tool has been developed. It is called PID H_∞ Designer or PID Hinf Tuner.