Investigation on the performance of an active noise control window system mounted on the top-hung window of a residential room

Urban noise mitigation experiment through active noise control window is not commonly carried out in in situ urban setting. This paper outlines our experimental settings of performing active noise control across the open aperture of the top-hung window frame in a dormitory room. A multi-channel adaptive filtered-x least mean square method is implemented in real-time. Experiments and analyses are carried out to investigate how the noise reduction performance of this active noise control window system is affected by the number of reference microphones, the distance between reference microphones and secondary sources, and the distributions of error microphones under practical restrictions of the real system implementation. Variation of the secondary path estimation is another important consideration in active noise control system design. Real-time experiments are carried out to investigate the sensitivity of the ANC window system over the secondary path variation caused by varying window opening status, and whether a generalised secondary path measured in one window opening setting can be applied to other window opening conditions.