Modeling, control and experiment of a feedback active noise control system for free sound fields (Q4437845)

The study of the author is focused on the modeling and controller design procedure for a feedback active noise control system for free sound fields. The acoustic plant is an acoustic transmission system from a loudspeaker (i.e. the actuator) to an error microphone (i.e. the sensor). This was modeled as a low-order infinite impulse response (IIR) model by the first-principle modeling method in conjunction with the system identification result under the assumption that the distance was sufficiently short relative to the wavelength of the sound to be controlled. In fact, the proposed modeling procedure for the acoustic plant consists of five steps: first-principle modeling, system identification experiment, modeling of implementation devices, parameter tuning, evaluation of model uncertainty. A feedback controller was designed to attenuate the noise level in the vicinity of the error sensor by \({\mathcal H}_\infty\) control theory based on the IIR model. Finally, the proposed design procedure was validated by experimental tests. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1007.00075].