A New Effective Narrowband Active Noise Control System for Accommodating Frequency Mismatch

Abstract

Narrowband active noise control (NANC) has shown excellent performance in dealing with the low frequency periodic noise generated by rotating machines, such as fans, engines and power transformers. Accommodating large frequency mismatch (FM) and improving its tracking capability is required for the NANC system. The existence of FM influences the noise cancellation performance. In this paper, a frequency correction algorithm based on least mean p-power (LMP) combined with the autoregressive (AR) model is designed for the NANC system, which is simple and feasible, and has a good performance under a large step size. In the NANC system, the reference signal is handled by a delay unit and AR model, and the coefficients of the AR model are adjusted by the LMP algorithm, which fine-tunes the coefficients and offers the reference signals to the NANC system. The stability bounds for the step size parameter have also been derived in the mean sense. The designed mechanism converges fast and enhances the noise decrement. Extensive simulations are performed to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed NANC in dealing with periodic noises.