Distributed Active Noise Control Systems Based on Simultaneous Equations Methods

Mitsuji MUNEYASU
Yumi WAKASUGI
Ken'ichi KAGAWA
Kensaku FUJII
Takao HINAMOTO

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E87-A    No.4    pp.807-815
Publication Date: 2004/04/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Selected Papers from the 16th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa)
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active noise control,  multiple channel,  distributed control,  noise reduction,  simultaneous equations method,  

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Summary: 
A multiple channel active noise control (ANC) system with several secondary sources, error sensors, and reference sensors has been used for complicated noise fields. Centralized multiple channel ANC systems have been proposed, however implementation of such systems becomes difficult according to increase of control points. Distributed multiple channel ANC systems which have more than a controller are considered. This paper proposes a new implementation of distributed multiple channel ANC systems based on simultaneous equations methods. In the proposed algorithm, communications between controllers are permitted to distribute the computational burden and to improve the performance of noise reduction. This algorithm shows good performances for noise cancellation and tracking of changes in the error paths.