6 Active noise control- A Tutorial Review.pdf

Active Noise Control: A Tutorial Review SEN M. KUO AND DENNIS R. MORGAN, SENIOR MEMBER, IEEE Active noise control ANC is achieved by introducing a cancel- opposite phase is generated and combined with the primary ing “antinoise” wave through an appropriate array of secondary noise, thus resulting in the cancellation of both noises. sources. These secondary sources are interconnected through an The ANC system ef?ciently attenuates low-frequency noise electronic system using a speci?c signal processing algorithm for the particular cancellation scheme. ANC has application to a wide where passive methods are either ineffective or tend to variety of problems in manufacturing, industrial operations, and be very expensive or bulky. ANC is developing rapidly consumer products. The emphasis of this paper is on the practical because it permits improvements in noise control, often aspects of ANC systems in terms of adaptive signal processing with potential bene?ts in size, weight, volume, and cost. and digital signal processing DSP implementation for real-world applications. The design of acoustic ANC utilizing a microphone and In this paper, the basic adaptive algorithm for ANC is developed an electronically driven loudspeaker to generate a canceling and analyzed based on single-channel broad-band feedforward sound was ?rst proposed in a 1936 patent by Lueg [7]. control. This algorithm is then modi?ed for narrow-band feedfor- Since the characteristics of the acoustic noise source and ward and adaptive feedback control. In turn, these single-channel the environment are time varying, the frequency content, ANC algorithms are expanded to multiple-channel cases. Various online secondary-path modeling techniques and special adap- amplitude, phase, and sound velocity of the undesired tive algorithms, such as lattice, frequency-domain, subband, an