Optimization of a Fixed Virtual Sensing Feedback ANC Controller for In-Ear Headphones with Multiple Loudspeakers

2021/10/07 by Benois, Piero Rivera, Roden, Reinhild, Blau, Matthias +1 · 2 citations
#Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #FOS: Electrical engineering #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2110.03586

Abstract

In this paper we consider an in-ear headphone equipped with an inner microphone and multiple loudspeakers and we propose an optimization procedure with a convex objective function to derive a fixed multi-loudspeaker ANC controller aiming at minimizing the sound pressure at the ear drum. Based on the virtual microphone arrangement (VMA) technique and measured acoustic paths between the loudspeakers and the ear drum, the FIR filters of the ANC controller are jointly optimized to minimize the power spectral density at the ear drum, subject to design and stability constraints. For an in-ear headphone with two loudspeakers, the proposed multi-loudspeaker VMA controller is compared to two single-loudspeaker VMA controllers. Simulation results with diffuse noise show that the multi-loudspeaker VMA controller effectively improves the attenuation by up to about 10 dB for frequencies below 300 Hz when compared to both single-loudspeaker VMA controllers.

Cited by

• Soft-Constrained Spatially Selective Active Noise Control for Open-fitting Hearables
• Adaptive Linearly Constrained Minimum Variance Framework for Volumetric Active Noise Control

Related

• Sound Pressure Minimization at the Ear Drum for In-ear ANC Headphones using a Fixed Feedforward Remote Microphone Technique
• The application of a multi-reference control strategy to noise cancelling headphones
• Computation-efficient Virtual Sensing Approach with Multichannel Adjoint Least Mean Square Algorithm
• A Survey of Integrating Wireless Technology into Active Noise Control
• Data-Driven Uncertainty Modeling for Robust Feedback Active Noise Control in Headphones