A Control Source Structure of Single Loudspeaker and Rear Sound Interference for Inexpensive Active Noise Control.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Acoustics and Vibration Volume 2010, Article ID 730813, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2010/730813 Research Article A Control Source Structure of Single Loudspeaker and Rear Sound Interference for Inexpensive Active Noise Control Yasuhide Kobayashi,1 Hisaya Fujioka,2 and Naoki Jinbo3 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan 2 Department of Applied Analysis and Complex Dynamical Systems, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan 3 Graduate School of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Niigata 940-2188, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Yasuhide Kobayashi, kobayasi@vos.nagaokaut.ac.jp Received 17 March 2010; Accepted 4 June 2010 Academic Editor: Marek Pawelczyk Copyright © 2010 Yasuhide Kobayashi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Active noise control systems of simple ducts are investigated. In particular, open-loop characteristics and closed-loop performances corresponding to various structures of control sources are compared based on both mathematical models and experimental results. In addition to the standard single loudspeaker and the Swinbanks’ source, we propose and examine a single loudspeaker with a rear sound interference as a novel structure of control source, where the rear sound radiated from the loudspeaker is interfered with the front sound in order to reduce the net upstream sound directly radiated from the control source. The comparisons of the control structures are performed as follows.