Adaptive fuzzy neural network control on the acoustic field in a duct

Base on the principle of the superposition of waves, active noise control is achieved by adaptively tuning a secondary source which produces an anti-noise of equal amplitude and opposite phase with primary source. This paper presents the study on the acoustic attenuation in a duct by using the combination of fuzzy neural network with error back propagation algorithm to control secondary source. The most important advantage of fuzzy inference system is that the structured knowledge is represented in the form of fuzzy IF-THEN rules. But it lacks the ability to accommodate the change of external environments. Combining neural network with fuzzy system can help in this tuning process by adapting fuzzy sets and creating fuzzy rules. The performance of attenuation and control error can be measured by the microphone placed in the downstream of duct. The results of this study, show that the acoustic attenuation by 40 dB for pure-tone noise and nearly 30 dB for dual-tones noise are obtained. (C) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.