Active noise barrier minimizing pressure gradient" (2010). Architectural Engineering-Faculty Publications. 96. Minimization of the sound pressure field within the shadow zone of a noise barrier is achieved by reducing the pressure gradient along a line, at the top of a barrier, via active noise control. The noise control effectiveness of a barrier is increased by this strategy, especially for s...

To evaluate the quality of available evidence on the effects of environmental noise exposure on sleep a systematic review was conducted. The databases PSYCINFO, PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, Web of Science and the TNO Repository were searched for non-laboratory studies on the effects of environmental noise on sleep with measured or predicted noise levels and published in or after the year 200...

This paper proposes an optimization based control scheme for a dual-stage hard disk drive servo system to maximize the tracking accuracy given the actuator bandwidth limitations without knowing the mechanical disturbance model. We proposed to add an outer loop, selected based on optimization of the Youla parameters, to the usual dual-stage controller for tracking accuracy improvement. The Youla...

BACKGROUND The wind turbine's sound seems to have a proportional effect on health of people living near to wind farms. This study aimed to investigate the effect of noise emitted from wind turbines on general health, sleep and annoyance among workers of manjil wind farm, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total number of 53 workers took part in this study. Based on the type of job, they were categ...

A new on-line cancellation path modeling signal for active noise control is proposed in this paper. The signal is based on the spectrum of the disturbance signal, and is especially useful for the cancellation path modeling in active noise control when the disturbance signal is tonal. It is shown that using the proposed signal as the perturbation signal in modeling can significantly reduce the m...

In the paper, algorithms for disturbance observers are newly presented in the time-domain. Attention is paid to observing a ramp disturbance by introducing an integral term to the output equation of a constant disturbance observer. In order to reduce the sensitivity to the measurement noise, the disturbance observer is combined with the state observer. It will be shown that the estimation dynam...