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Uncertainty Constraint on Headphone Secondary Path Function for Designing Cascade Biquad Feedback Controller with Improved Noise Reduction Performance

Version 1 : Received: 5 February 2024 / Approved: 5 February 2024 / Online: 5 February 2024 (13:50:07 CET)

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Hua, Y.; Peng, L. Uncertainty Constraint on Headphone Secondary Path Function for Designing Cascade Biquad Feedback Controller with Improved Noise Reduction Performance. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 2236. Hua, Y.; Peng, L. Uncertainty Constraint on Headphone Secondary Path Function for Designing Cascade Biquad Feedback Controller with Improved Noise Reduction Performance. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 2236.

Abstract

The uncertainty in the secondary path of an Active Noise Control (ANC) headphone affects the waterbed effect and stability of the feedback system. This study focuses on the uncertainty of the secondary path when real users wear headphones, and proposes a new uncertainty constraint based on the measured results of the secondary path transfer function under different wearing conditions of dummy head and limited subjects. This constraint and a cascaded second-order infinite impulse response filter with fixed coefficients are used to formulate a control strategic function, which is optimized by the Improved Grey Wolf Optimizer (IGWO) algorithm to obtain the optimal controller with better noise reduction performance. The proposed method and simulation model are validated based on the experimental test results. The results demonstrate that the safety factor and waterbed suppressing factor contained in the proposed uncertainty constraint ensures more stable noise reduction and effective suppression of the waterbed effect for new subjects without a priori data.

Keywords

active noise control; feedback control; secondary path uncertainty; headphones; fixed controllers; parametric filters

Subject

Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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