Multi-scattering in active noise control

This paper follows up on an earlier paper of the author [1] dealing with the issue of multi-scattering in a typical active noise control system. This work concerns the effects of the presence of a neighboring wall on the performance of an active noise cancellation system when the dimension of sources is added to the analysis. Effect of the adjacent wall is taken into account using the image method, and multi-scattering is also allowed for by the spherical harmonic addition theorem. The recognized method of separation of variables and appropriate wave field expansions in spherical coordination are used to derive the required analytical solutions. A primary spherical source radiates at different modes, and a secondary source is modeled as a radially vibrating cap which resembles a real sound speaker. Our particular interest in this work is to investigate effects of multi-scattering at intermediate working frequencies of ANC, e.g., about 100–500 Hz. In addition to emphasizing the importance of multi-scattering, this work endeavors to find the appropriate cap angle of the control source to achieve acceptable noise attenuation for different vibrating modes of the primary source (monopole, dipole). Numerical results reveal that the presence of a rigid wall will considerably change the adequate velocity of the secondary source and also show that using a baffled spherical piston instead of a monopole control source will obviously improve the sound minimization efficiency when the primary source vibrates in the n = 1 mode in a low frequency range. Published in Russian in Akusticheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2008, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 5–17. The text was submitted by the author in English.     

Analogue active noise control

The aim of this article is to present in details all the stages of an analogue active noise control system. As the exemplary plant, an active personal hearing protection device is considered. In the introductory section the plant is presented and the state of the art is reported. In subsequent section, first a way of identification of a continuous-time model of the plant is described and performance limitations are analysed. Then, the procedure for designing optimal controller is proposed. It starts from analysing properties of the plant and choosing a suitable controller structure. Next, coefficients of the controller are found following the design premises. These coefficients serve as initial parameters in the optimisation process. For this process the performance index and appropriate constraints are built. Next, details on implementation of the controller using a chip with switched capacitors are given. Attenuation results of various noises are presented. Finally, cost of the hardware is evaluated.The methodology presented in this article can be considered as a detailed procedure for designing and practically realising cheap and easily tuneable controllers providing good noise attenuation and satisfying several constraints related to frequency band, stability margin, etc.     

空间有源消声的微机控制

本文讨论了通用微机控制空间有源消声，以修正的ＰＩＤ算法加上逻辑判断构成的控制软件，使得系统收敛迅速，跟踪速度快，消声效果令人满意，而且系统工作稳定可靠。     

空间有源消声的微机控制

本文讨论用通用微机控制空间有源消声．以修正的PID（比例、积分、微分）算法加上逻辑判断构成的控制软件，使得系统收敛迅速，跟踪速度快，消声效果令人满意，而且系统工作稳定可靠，     

噪声主动控制研究的发展与动向

本回顾了噪声主动控制的典型设计方法和常见的算法,结合当前较新的鲁棒控制方法,指出今后噪声主动控制的一些发展动向,为这一技术的实用性提供借鉴。     

自适应宽带有源消声

实际中存在的噪声,一般都是窄带或有色宽带噪声(简称宽带噪声),而宽带噪声更为普遍.为使宽带自适应有源消声(AANC)得到实际应用,必须保证宽带AANC系统具有良好的稳定性和较高的降噪量.为此,本文对AANC系统稳态性能作了理论分析和数值计算,得到了系统降噪量对噪声带宽、空间声传播通道、自适应滤波器参数等的依赖关系;以自由声场远场AANC为例,从声学角度对AANC系统作了物理解释,从而为改进宽带AANC系统性能提供理论依据.     

机车驾驶室中自适应有源降噪系统的研究

根据机车驾驶室中噪声特征的分析结果，提出了采用FIR滤波器的自适应有源降噪(ANNC)系统。为消除机车驾驶室中严重的背景噪声干扰影响，应用伪随机相关法对驾驶室中的噪声脉冲响应进行测量。通过数字仿真研究，对基于IMS算法的ANNC系统的关键参数进行了寻优。最后，在实际声场中建立了实时双通道ANNC系统并进行了相关的实验验证。仿真与实验的结果证明了本文提出的AANC系统的可行性和有效性。     

Improving robustness of active noise control in ducts

A robust active noise controller (ANC) is proposed here for finite ducts. While the H(infinity) control theory provides theoretical ground and numerical algorithms to design robust controllers, it is important for an engineer to design and formulate a robust controller so that the objective is more achievable and the H(infinity) constraints less restrictive without sacrificing robustness. A new robust ANC is designed this way with an extra actuator to improve achievable performance and introduce more degrees of freedom to controller parameters. The new strategy relaxes H(infinity) constraints without sacrificing robustness and enables the ANC to tolerate a wide variety of errors and uncertainties including truncation errors between a finite model and an infinite field. Theoretical analysis, numerical examples, and experimental results are presented to demonstrate the improved performance of the proposed ANC when subject to a certain level of uncertainties in a duct.     

空间有源消声实验研究

本文分别在半声室和普通房间进行有源消声实验，证明了作者以前提出的算法是收敛的，稳定的，以此算法构成的多通道有源消声系统对直达声和混响声都能进行了有效的控制。     

Power requirements for active noise control in ducts

Active attenuation of noise in a duct generally requires either one or two rings of cancelling loudspeakers located around the duct perimeter. Consideration is given to the acoustic loading on the loudspeakers and it is shown that the use of a horn is likely to create more problems that it solves. Direct radiator operation, with the drive units attached directly to the duct walls, is preferable. The single ring (monopole) system reflects the noise giving rise to upstream standing waves, meaning that the loudspeakers and amplifiers must be able to handle correspondingly larger signals. The double ring (dipole) system absorbs the noise and is more efficient than the monopole system. The dipole system can be made still more efficient over a narrow band of frequencies by tuning both the loudspeakers and the spacing between them.     

局域空间噪声主动控制技术的进展

低频噪声主动控制技术实现实用化，需要同时了解其在声学和电子控制方法上的可实现性，本文在系统的文献检索的基础上，综述了局域空间自适应噪声主动控制技术的发展，内容包括用次级声源控制室外局域噪声，围护结构内的局域空间和室外向室内传播的小范围区域空间噪声主动控制在声学上的限制（原理），以及各种控制策略和算法的应用，本文列出的文献包括了已有的重要研究成果，可为读者进一步了解该领域的研究提供详细的背景材料。     

Adaptive Laguerre filters for active noise control

Feedforward controllers are used in many active noise control (ANC) systems to generate destructive interference in noise fields. An ideal feedforward ANC controller should have an infinite impulse response (IIR) transfer function, but most available feedforward ANC controllers have finite impulse responses (FIR) instead. The main reason is related to the adaptation algorithms of ANC systems. In general, adaptive FIR filters converge faster with guaranteed stability. In this study, the adaptive Laguerre filter is proposed and tested in an ANC application with positive experimental effects. The new ANC controller is an IIR filter, but its adaptation is similar to that of a FIR filter with fast convergence and guaranteed stability. Detailed explanations and analysis are presented in the main text.     

Robust active control of broadband noise in finite ducts

This study focuses on robust active control of broadband noise in finite ducts. Our analytical and experimental studies suggest the existence of several technical flaws in the path models of conventional active noise control (ANC) systems. These are sensitivity of the path model with respect to boundary conditions, and nonminimum phase (NMP) secondary and reference paths. For finite ducts with small cross sections, the traveling wave model (TWM) may be adopted to find an effective solution to these problems and lead to a robust ANC system. Since many practical "noisy" ducts are finite with small cross sections, the proposed ANC has many practical applications. Its robustness and ability to suppress broadband noise will be explained theoretically and verified experimentally.     

Adaptive active noise and vibration control systems

A review of research concerned with adaptive noise and vibration control systems and performed under the supervision of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.A. Zverev at Nizhni Novgorod State University in the 1980s and 1990s is presented. The history of the subject is briefly outlined, and the theoretical foundations of the design of adaptive active control systems for random wave fields are considered. The main experimental studies performed in this area of research at the Department of Bionics and Statistical Radiophysics of Nizhni Novgorod State University are described. Promising lines of research in this area are indicated, and examples of the practical application of adaptive control systems are given.     

Multi-domain active sound control and noise shielding

This paper describes an active sound control methodology based on difference potentials. The main feature of this methodology is its ability to automatically preserve "wanted" sound within a domain while cancelling "unwanted" noise from outside the domain. This method of preservation of the wanted sounds by active shielding control is demonstrated with various broadband and realistic sound sources such as human voice and music in multiple domains in a one-dimensional enclosure. Unlike many other conventional active control methods, the proposed approach does not require the explicit characterization of the wanted sound to be preserved. The controls are designed based on the measurements of the total field on the boundaries of the shielded domain only, which is allowed to be multiply connected. The method is tested in a variety of experimental cases. The typical attenuation of the unwanted noise is found to be about 20 dB over a large area of the shielded domain and the original wanted sound field is preserved with errors of around 1 dB and below through a broad frequency range up to 1 kHz.     

A novel feedback active noise control for broadband chaotic noise and random noise

The feedback active noise control (ANC) can be seen as a predictor, the conventional method based on filtered-x least mean square (FXLMS) algorithm can only be useful for linear and tonal noise, but for nonlinear and broadband noise, it is useless. The feedback ANC using functional link artificial neural networks (FLANN) based on filtered-s least mean square (FSLMS) algorithm can reduce some nonlinear noise such as chaotic noise, but the noise cancellation performance is not very well, at the same time, it is not useful to random noise. To solve the problem above, a new feedback ANC using wavelet packet FXLMS (WPFXLMS) algorithm is proposed in this paper. By decomposing the broadband noise into several band-limited parts which are predictable and each part is controlled independently, the proposed algorithm can not only suppress the chaotic noise, but also mitigate the random noise. Compared with FXLMS and FSLMS algorithms, proposed WPFXLMS algorithm also holds the best performance on noise cancellation. Numerous simulations are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed WPFXLMS algorithm.     

Hybrid active and passive control of fan noise

This paper deals with the global reduction of axial flow fan noise in ducts in a building using a hybrid passive-active noise control method. The effectiveness of using an infra-red device as a reference signal source is also investigated. It is shown that using such a hybrid noise control system over an axial-flow fan reduces the overall sound pressure level by 5 dB(A) in the surrounding environment and global control of the blade passing frequency can also be achieved. This paper also shows that using an infra-red device as a reference signal source produces marginally better control as compared with using a microphone reference sensor. Moreover, long term stability is guaranteed and the possibility of acoustic feedback is eliminated.     

Experiments on the active control of transformer noise

This paper describes an experiment which demonstrates how a useful degree of active noise control can be achieved with ordinary sound amplification and reproduction equipment. A loudspeaker positioned next to a large pair of noisy electricity transformers was made to mimic their noise but in antiphase. The aim of the study was to investigate the degree to which the “antisound” would cancel a disturbing noise heard in a nearby office. Some 20 decibels of control was achieved very easily for the 100 Hz component of the noise but the higher frequency sound could only be controlled in localized patches. The experiment suggests that sounds of discrete frequencies of less than 100 Hz are relatively easily controlled with unsophisticated audio equipment, but that useful control of higher frequency elements is much more difficult.     

Improving performance of FxRLS algorithm for active noise control of impulsive noise

Active noise control (ANC) systems employing adaptive filters suffer from stability issues in the presence of impulsive noise. New impulsive noise control algorithms based on filtered-x recursive least square (FxRLS) algorithm are presented. The FxRLS algorithm gives better convergence than the filtered-x least mean square (FxLMS) algorithm and its variants but lacks robustness in the presence of high impulsive noise. In order to improve the robustness of FxRLS algorithm for ANC of impulsive noise, two modifications are suggested. First proposed modification clips the reference and error signals while, the second modification incorporates energy of the error signal in the gain of FxRLS (MGFxRLS) algorithm. The results demonstrate improved stability and robustness of proposed modifications in the FxRLS algorithm. However, another limitation associated with the FxRLS algorithm is its computationally complex nature. In order to reduce the computational load, a hybrid algorithm based on proposed MGFxRLS and normalized step size FxLMS (NSS-FXLMS) is also developed in this paper. The proposed hybrid algorithm combines the stability of NSS-FxLMS algorithm with the fast convergence speed of the proposed MGFxRLS algorithm. The results of the proposed hybrid algorithm prove that its convergence speed is faster than that of NSS-FxLMS algorithm with computational complexity lesser than that of FxRLS algorithm.     

The performance of active control of random noise in cars

This letter investigates the effectiveness of various configurations of reference sensors for feedforward active control systems in vehicles using unconstrained frequency domain optimization. The results from a model problem are based on a fully coupled analysis between the vibration of a car panel and an enclosed acoustic field. These suggest that with correct locations, only a small number of microphones or accelerometers are needed to give good overall performance, despite many uncorrelated primary disturbances being present. Similar results are predicted from road test data.