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Active noise control with selective perceptual equalization to shape the residual sound

Active noise control with selective perceptual equalization to shape the residual sound
Active noise control with selective perceptual equalization to shape the residual sound
An active noise control (ANC) system usually contains a control filter to generate an anti-noise sound that destructively interferes with the primary noise. The filtered reference least mean squares (FxLMS) algorithm is the seminal adaptive ANC algorithm that updates the control filter coefficients iteratively. However, the FxLMS algorithm is primarily designed to minimize the power of the residual sound, without consideration to the auditory sensation. Thus, the residual sound can be perceived to be different from the primary noise of a broad frequency band. When an ANC system running the FxLMS algorithm was piloted in a substation’s control room, workers expressed discomfort with the residual sound, even though the noise level was reduced. It was mainly because the workers were annoyed by the residual sound which they identified as an anomaly operating state. In order to resolve this problem, this paper proposes a selective perceptual equalization FxLMS (SPE-FxLMS) algorithm to retain the operating state in the residual sound. The simulation, experiment and subjective test results validate the effectiveness of the SPE-FxLMS algorithm in reducing the noise level and shaping the residual sound to create a sense of auditory familiarity for the workers.
Auditory familiarity, Cosine similarity, Perceptual equalization, Residual sound, Selective active noise control
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Shi, Chuang
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Huang, Mengjie
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Liu, Chunyu
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Li, Huiyong
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Shi, Chuang
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Huang, Mengjie
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Liu, Chunyu
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Li, Huiyong
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Shi, Chuang, Huang, Mengjie, Liu, Chunyu and Li, Huiyong (2023) Active noise control with selective perceptual equalization to shape the residual sound. Applied Acoustics, 208, [109376]. (doi:10.1016/j.apacoust.2023.109376).

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Abstract

An active noise control (ANC) system usually contains a control filter to generate an anti-noise sound that destructively interferes with the primary noise. The filtered reference least mean squares (FxLMS) algorithm is the seminal adaptive ANC algorithm that updates the control filter coefficients iteratively. However, the FxLMS algorithm is primarily designed to minimize the power of the residual sound, without consideration to the auditory sensation. Thus, the residual sound can be perceived to be different from the primary noise of a broad frequency band. When an ANC system running the FxLMS algorithm was piloted in a substation’s control room, workers expressed discomfort with the residual sound, even though the noise level was reduced. It was mainly because the workers were annoyed by the residual sound which they identified as an anomaly operating state. In order to resolve this problem, this paper proposes a selective perceptual equalization FxLMS (SPE-FxLMS) algorithm to retain the operating state in the residual sound. The simulation, experiment and subjective test results validate the effectiveness of the SPE-FxLMS algorithm in reducing the noise level and shaping the residual sound to create a sense of auditory familiarity for the workers.

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 April 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 April 2023
Published date: 24 April 2023
Additional Information: Funding Information: This manuscript is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Civil Aviation Administration of China (Joint Grant No. U1933127). The authors would like to thank Mr. Degui Yao, Mr. Songyang Zhang, Mr. Huitian Jiang, Mr. Tianchu Yao, and Mr. Rong Xie for their efforts in coordinating and conducting on-site measurements of the HVDC-CTS dataset. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Elsevier Ltd
Keywords: Auditory familiarity, Cosine similarity, Perceptual equalization, Residual sound, Selective active noise control

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Local EPrints ID: 483684
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/483684
ISSN: 0003-682X
PURE UUID: 71549fcf-ec94-48a9-a7b4-61721fca4652
ORCID for Chuang Shi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1517-2775

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Last modified: 15 May 2024 02:07

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Author: Chuang Shi ORCID iD
Author: Mengjie Huang
Author: Chunyu Liu
Author: Huiyong Li

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