A duct active noise control (ANC) experimental platform including the physical system, hardware and software system was designed to control a DC motor operating noise. The parameters for the single channel ANC algorithms were optimized to achieve the maximum noise reduction when the practical DC motor operating noise was applied. With these optimized algorithm parameters, several experiments were
... [Show full abstract] conducted for both single channel and multi-channel duct ANC system to control the DC motor operating noise. The experimental results show that the maximum sound pressure level (SPL) reductions downstream of the duct are about 14.8 dB and 17.9 dB for the single channel duct ANC system, 16.42 dB and 19.72 dB for the multi-channel duct ANC system when the DC motor operates at the speed of 1200 r/min and 1500 r/min respectively, which indicates that ANC can be a feasible way to reduce the motor operating noise.