Abstract:
A system includes an Active Noise Control (ANC) module unit configured to be installed within an air intake or exhaust of a power generation unit. The ANC module unit includes an ANC housing shaped to fit within the air intake or exhaust, an ANC core configured to be secured within the ANC housing, which includes a microphone configured to detect a sound generated by the power generation unit, a control board configured to control the noise-canceling sound based on the sound signal from the microphone and a set of pre-determined noise reduction transfer functions, and a first speaker configured to deliver a first noise-canceling sound to the air intake or exhaust.
Abstract:
The inventive method for reducing the noise level of an aviation engine consists in receiving and converting a noise acoustic signal into an electric signal, transmitting the received signal to the place of the processing thereof, processing the electric signal in order to actively reduce the noise level, amplifying said signal, converting it into an acoustic signal and in emitting it to a point of space where the acoustic signals are received. The electric signals used for the active noise reduction are formed in a low-frequency region of a noise spectrum in order to increase the dimensions of a space region where noises are reduced. The inventive systems for carrying out said method are disposed in the regions of a more probable location of people which can be disturbed by the noise of aviation engines arranged inside an aircraft or thereoutside.
Abstract:
A hybrid active-passive system (20) for reducing noise within a passenger compartment and vibration of a fuselage of a vehicle, such as an aircraft (turboprop, turbofan, or helicopter). The hybrid active-passive system (20) includes, in combination: an active acoustic producer such as a loudspeaker (35), Active Vibration Absorber (AVA) (34), or active absorber assembly (39) for producing antinoise within the compartment (42), and a passive resonant device, such as a passive Tuned Vibration Absorber (TVA) (36), or passive TVA assembly (37) for controlling vibration of the fuselage or structural supports interconnecting the disturbance source (e.g. power plants (26), propellers (28a), gearbox (57), main rotor (28m), tail rotor (28t)) and the fuselage wall (25).
Abstract:
A method for the active control of sound radiated in a duct (1) comprising sensing sound from an array (4) of sensors located on the inside surface of a flow duct and controlling an array (3) of secondary sources (loudspeakers) so as to minimize sound radiated in the far field. This is done by controlling the sound sources so as to minimize a cost function. Depending on whether total sound power or sound power towards the sideline is to be reduced, different cost functions are used by the method.
Abstract:
An active noise control system is provided with a plurality of error sensor arrays (50, 77) which provide signals on lines (64-74, 90-100) to beam forming and beam steering logic (76) which cause the arrays (50, 77) to exhibit acoustic response profiles (104, 106), respectively. The profiles (104, 106) intersect in a predefined region (116) to be quieted. The logic (76) provides signals on lines (118), one for each region to be quieted, to active noise control (ANC) logic (20) which also receives inputs from feedforward sensing microphones (10) and provides output signals to acoustic speakers (24) which generate anti-noise (26) to cancel the noise in the quiet region (116). The quiet region (116) may be selectively positioned to any region in the room by steering the beams (104, 108). Alternatively, the system may have a plurality of distributed sensors which, when taken together, have an overall maximum (main lobe) acoustic response at a predetermined selectable quiet region.
Abstract:
A jet engine fan noise reduction system. The noise reduction system includes active noise control to suppress fan (15) tone noise of an airplane flyover noise signature. The active noise control includes microphones (1, 11) with acoustic transducers upstream and downstream of the engine fan (15) and fan exit guide vane (16) stage to sense control system errors. Control signals are derived from the fan angular speed or blade passing frequency and the error signal sensed by the acoustic transducers. The control output signals actuate (modulate) air control valves (45) on each side of the fan stage to direct conditioned (pressure and temperature regulated) high pressure primary air flow, thereby producing acoustic cancelling of fan tone noise.
Abstract:
An active mount (10) for fixed wing applications. One aspect of the invention provides decoupling of two tones which are close in frequency by positioning the mount actuators (16) and error sensors (18) in the primary transmission path of the disturbance vibration and by providing adequate spatial separation between the two sets of error sensors to reduce or eliminate cross-coupling of the signals. Another aspect of the invention utilizes orthogonally positioned actuators (16) with corresponding actuators of paired mounts being focalized for each engine (17, 19).
Abstract:
In propeller of fan driven aircraft, cabin noise levels may be reduced by adjustment of the phase relationship between a reference propeller or fan and some or all of the other propellers or fans. An aircraft cabin (1) contains four microphones (2, 3, 4, 5) and two loudspeakers (6, 7) which form the active elements of a noise control system. The microphone outputs are fed via amplifiers (12, 13, 14, 15) to a digital signal processor (11) having an adaptation algorithm in a memory store. The processor generates an error signal which is used to adjust the synchrophase angle between the reference propeller (10) and a synchrophased propeller (9), controlled by a synchrophaser (8). Thus the synchrophase angle is varied dynamically during flight to minimise propeller noise in the cabin over a range of flying condiditons.
Abstract:
A method of reducing the adaption time needed to adapt a synthetically generated secondary waveform so that it nulls a primary repetitive waveform (e.g. noise) from a source (1) of vibration, the secondary waveform generation (5) being synchronised by the source (1). The polarity and/or the amplitude of at least a part of the signal resulting from interaction between the primary and secondary waveforms is sensed (6) and used (7, 8) to reshape the secondary waveform. The invention finds application in the cancelling of repetitive vibrations (e.g. in quietening the driving cab of a vehicle).
Abstract:
Noises that are to be emitted by an aerial vehicle (1210) during operations may be predicted using one or more machine learning systems, algorithms or techniques. Anti-noises having equal or similar intensities and equal but out-of-phase frequencies may be identified and generated based on the predicted noises, thereby reducing or eliminating the net effect of the noises. The machine learning systems, algorithms or techniques used to predict such noises may be trained using emitted sound pressure levels observed during prior operations of aerial vehicles, as well as environmental conditions, operational characteristics of the aerial vehicles or locations of the aerial vehicles during such prior operations. Anti-noises may be identified and generated based on an overall sound profile of the aerial vehicle, or on individual sounds emitted by the aerial vehicle by discrete sources.