The effects of aircraft noise, with respect to both passenger comfort and occupational health, have long since been realised, with many examples of sound control now implemented in commercial aircraft. However, the single engined four seater aircraft cabin is still an extremely noisy environment, which has apparently been ignored to date, especially with respect to low frequency sound reduction...

This paper presents the experimental results of using the single-channel adaptive feedback active noise control (AFANC) algorithm with an innovative setup to achieve global attenuation of industrial machine noise in settings such as large manufacturing plants. An effective solution of using active/passive techniques and three distributed error sensors is proposed. The performance of the AFANC a...

Introduction Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners are popular medical diagnostic devices providing useful information about patients in a noninvasive manner. However, a disadvantage of MRI is the high level of acoustic noise generated during scanning, which is caused by the Lorentz forces acting on the gradient coils bound within an epoxy resin cylinder. As the gradient current switches di...

Pressure pulsation, created by the operation of hydraulic pumps in a fluid power system, is one of the primary causes of noise issues from hydraulic machinery. The wave energy resulting from such pulsation propagates in both the wall and the fluid of the flow pipes associated with the fluid power systems, inducing fluid borne vibration of the pipes and the consequent noise radiated from the pip...

Extracting the coherent component of the ambient noise field propagating between a pair of passive receivers provides a means for passive acoustic sensing of the ocean environment. For instance, the arrival-times structure of the ambient noise cross-correlation time-function between a pair of receivers can yield an estimate of the arrival structure (or wavefronts) of the actual time-domain Gree...

Extracting the coherent component of the ambient noise field propagating between a pair of passive receivers provides a means for passive acoustic sensing of the ocean environment. For instance, the arrival-times structure of the ambient noise cross-correlation time-function between a pair of receivers can yield an estimate of the arrival structure (or wavefronts) of the actual time-domain Gree...

Engine intake noise of automobile is another important noise that irritates drivers and passengers. The intake noise is narrow-banded low frequency noise. And it varies with engine rpm and throttle condition. Active Noise Control (ANC) technique is superior to passive noise control for this low-frequency noise. ANC is applied to four-cylinder automobile engine intake system. Normalized FXLMS (F...

In this paper active noise is controlled by using higher order X-LMS (least mean square) filter. This technique is based on X-NLMS (normalized least mean square), also known as traditional acoustic noise cancellation (ANC) scheme. It cancels the wideband noise from the corrupted speech signal. The active noise reducing headphone is probably the most successful application of active control of s...