• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.375-382
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• 2014

In many practical active noise control applications, the primary noise contains multiple closely-spaced harmonics. A narrowband ANC system consists of adaptive filters excited by a composite reference signal, which is the set or sum of sinusoids. This paper analyzes and shows that the convergence speeds of the direct form, parallel form, and simplified parallel form narrowband ANC systems are affected by the fundamental frequency and frequency separation between two adjacent sinusoids in the reference signal. This paper also proposes the new simplified parallel form narrowband ANC system whose convergence speed is independent on the frequency of the reference signal. Computer simulations are conducted to verify the analysis presented in the paper and to compare the proposed narrowband ANC system with the conventional narrowband ANC system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.288-293
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• 2009

This study presents the active noise control of duct noise. The duct was excited by a steady-state harmonic and white noise force and the control was performed by one control speaker attached to surface of the duct. An adaptive controller based on filtered x LMS(FXLMS) algorithm was used and controller was defined by minimizing the square of the response of the error microphone. The assemble controller, which is called a hybrid ANC(active noise control) system, was combined with feedforward and feedback controller. The feedforward ANC attenuates primary noise that is correlated with the reference signal, while the feedback ANC cancels the narrowband components of the primary noise that are not observed by the reference sensor. Furthermore, in many ANC applications, the periodic components of noise are the most intense and the feedback ANC system has the effect of reducing the spectral peaks of the primary noise, thus easing the burden of the feedforward ANC filter.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07d
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• pp.3195-3197
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• 2000

Narrowband active noise control (ANC) techniques to reduce the noise in thermal power plant are considered. To reduce the computational burden of the ANC system, an adjoint LMS algorithm instead of a filteredx LMS algorithm is used for adaptive filters. The square wave signal is used for the reference signal of adaptive filters to reduce the higher order harmonics as well as the fundamental frequency of noise. A computer simulation has done to show the effectiveness of a proposed algorithm.