Hs. Kim et al., ACTIVE NOISE-CONTROL WITH THE ACTIVE MUFFLER IN AUTOMOTIVE EXHAUST SYSTEMS, JSME international journal. Series C, mechanical systems, machine elements and manufacturing, 41(2), 1998, pp. 178-183
This study experimentally demonstrates the use of an active muffler at
tached to an automotive exhaust system to reduce exhaust noise. For im
proving the signal to noise ratio in the process of estimating seconda
ry path transfer functions, an on-line algorithm in which conventional
inverse modeling is combined with an adaptive line enhancer is used a
s the control algorithm. The active muffler is designed so that the pr
imary noise and the control sound are propagated as a plane wave in th
e outlet. Therefore, the error microphone could be placed outside the
high temperature centers of the tail pipe, and the noise radiating to
the outside could be reduced in the whole area around the outlet. The
control experiment for reducing exhaust noise with an active muffler i
s implemented during run-up on no load. Compared with the conventional
off-line method, it can be seen from the experimental results present
ed the proposed on-line method is capable of acquiring a reduction of
more than 5 dB of exhaust noise in overall sound power level.