Active Noise Control Over 3D Space with A Dynamic Noise Source

Spatial Active noise control (ANC) systems are proposed to minimize the noise over a spatial region of interest around people’s heads by generating an anti-noise field with multiple microphones and loudspeakers. Recently, a realistic microphone geometry was designed to allow the system to monitor the residual noise field without restricting people’s head movement. However, this design, which utilizes the remote microphone technique using an observation filter (OF) for noise field modelling, has a drawback that the system is not robust against variations in the noise source location. In this paper, we address this drawback and present an improved spatial ANC system that overcomes this limitation. The proposed system enhances its adaptability by selectively employing the most suitable OF from a set of pre-modelled discriminator filter (DF), tailored to the acoustic environment of the system. We demonstrate that the proposed method maintains noise reduction performance over the region of interest with a dynamic noise source with changing position and signal through simulation and physical measurements.