Minimisation of the maximum error signal in active control

This paper deals with multiple input multiple output systems for active control of acoustic signals. These systems are used when the acoustic field is complex and therefore a number of sensors are necessary to estimate the sound field and a number of sources to create the cancelling field. A steepest descent iterative algorithm is applied to minimise the p-norm of a vector composed by the output signals of a microphone array. The existing algorithms deal with the 2-norm of this vector. This paper describes a general framework that covers the existing systems and then it focuses on the /spl infin/-norm minimisation algorithm. The minimax algorithm based on the /spl infin/-norm minimises the output signal which has the greatest power. It is shown by means of simulations using measured data from a real room that the minimax algorithm leads to a more uniform final noise field than the existing algorithms.

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