Effects of Error Path Delay on Stability of the Filtered-x/Constrained Filtered-x LMS Algorithm

Many of the active noise control system utilize a form of the least mean square(LMS) algorithm. This paper discusses the dependence of the convergence rate on the acoustic error path in the popular algorithm which is conventional "filtered-x LMS" and introduces new algorithm "constrained filtered-x LMS". The proposed method increase the convergence region regardless of the time-delay in the acoustic error path. In the algorithms, coefficients of the controller are adapted using the residuals of constrained structure which are defined in such a way that the control process become stationary. Advantages of constrained filtered-x LMS algorithm is illustrated by convergence analysis in the mean sense.