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In the left gure, the noise source and planar antinoise sources are marked and labeled. In the right gure, there are point antinoise sources; only left side actuators are marked and labeled. The corresponding actuators on the right side are dened symmetrically on the right side of the cabin.
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A numerical method for optimizing the local control of sound in a stochastic domain is developed. A three-dimensional enclosed acoustic space, for example, a cabin with acoustic actuators in given locations is modeled using the nite element method in the frequency domain. The optimal local noise control signals minimizing the least square of the pr...
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... This is a non-intrusive approach which allows using a solution method for non-stochastic problems without any modification. In [37], this approach was used to develop a method to study the performance of a local noise control that is optimal in a stochastic domain and in [31], the method was further used to find optimal secondary source locations for such local ANC system. However, the method could be used only for performance assessment purposes. ...
... In this paper, we propose a novel ANC method for enclosed cavities. The method is based on [37], but the optimization of secondary source signals is now reformulated such that an arbitrary number of reference microphones is used to adapt optimal ANC to prevailing acoustic field. This means that the system remains optimal even if changes in phase and amplitude of the noise occur. ...
... Especially posture and head position affect the sound pressure that is experienced in ears and these parameters lead to the stochasticity of the computation domain. As in [37], the domain stochasticity variable r = (r 1 , r 2, r 3 ) ...
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