Active noise control algorithm that requires no secondary path identification based on the SPR property

• US 20100284546A1
• Filed: 08/18/2006
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Colorado (University of Colorado System)
• Original Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Colorado (University of Colorado System)
• Inventors: Zhou, Dayong, DeBrunner, Victor, Wang, Yunhua, Fuller, Justin, DeBrunner, Linda
• Application Number:
  US11/506,256
• Publication Number:
  US 20100284546A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/71.2
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17823 Reference signals, e.g. ambient acoustic environment
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17825 Error signals
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17854 the filter being an adaptive filter
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17855 for improving speed or power requirements
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17879 using both a reference signal and an error signal
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/17881 the reference signal being an acoustic signal, e.g. recorded with a microphone

Abstract

A control system for reducing noise or vibration in a target zone. The noise or vibration is produced by a source and transferred to the target zone by a main path. The control system is provided with an actuator, at least one error sensor and a controller. The actuator is positioned to deliver actuated signals into at least a portion of the target zone. The at least one error sensor monitors the residual noise or vibration power in the target zone and produces an error signal representative thereof. The controller receives a reference signal representative of noise or vibration produced by the source, and the error signal representative of the residual noise power in the target zone. The controller analyzes sub-bands of the reference signal and the error signal without identification of a secondary path, and provides drive signals to the actuator to cause the actuator to deliver the actuated signals into the target zone so as to reduce the residual noise power in the target zone.

Claims

1. A control system for reducing noise or vibration in a target zone, the noise or vibration produced by a source and transferred to the target zone by a main path, the control system, comprising:

an actuator positioned to deliver actuated signals into at least a portion of the target zone;

at least one error sensor monitoring the residual noise or vibration power in the target zone and producing an error signal representative thereof; and

a controller receiving a reference signal representative of noise or vibration produced by the source, and the error signal representative of the residual noise power in the target zone, the controller analyzing sub-bands of the reference signal and the error signal without identification of a secondary path, and providing drive signals to the actuator to cause the actuator to deliver the actuated signals into the target zone so as to reduce the residual noise power in the target zone.

2. The control system of claim 1, wherein the reference signal and the error signal are divided into sub-bands.

3. The control system of claim 1, wherein the drive signal provided by the controller has an amplitude equal to an estimated amplitude of the noise or vibration in the target zone, and opposite in polarity to the estimated noise or vibration from the source in the target zone.

4. The control system for reducing noise in a target zone of claim 1, wherein the controller is adapted to form an adaptive filter.

5-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A controller for reducing noise or vibration in a target zone, the noise produced by a source and transferred to the target zone by a main path, the controller comprising:

a computational system running a control algorithm, the control algorithm causing the computational system to receive a reference signal representative of noise or vibration produced by the source, and an error signal representative of the residual noise power in the target zone, the control algorithm causing the computational system to analyze sub-bands of the reference signal and the error signal without identification of a secondary path to update adaptive filter coefficients.

9-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A control system for reducing noise or vibration in a target zone, the noise or vibration produced by a source and transferred to the target zone by a main path, the control system, comprising:

an actuator positioned to deliver actuated signals into at least a portion of the target zone;

at least one error sensor monitoring the residual noise or vibration power in the target zone and producing an error signal representative thereof;

a controller receiving a reference signal representative of noise or vibration produced by the source, and the error signal representative of the residual noise power in the target zone, the controller analyzing of the reference signal and the error signal without identification of a secondary path, and providing drive signals to the actuator to cause the actuator to deliver the actuated signals into the target zone so as to reduce at least one of a single-tone sinusoid and a multiple-frequency sinusoid in the target zone.