Active noise control system based on EMD and loudness

In order to improve the noise reduction effect of the control system, an active noise control system based on EMD (empirical mode decomposition) and loudness is proposed. The noise source is decomposed adaptively using EMD at first and the loudness of all IMFs is calculated in such a system. Then a shaping filter of the error signal is designed according to the amplitudes of the IMF loudness. The filter designed with this method can restrain the components of noise source with small loudness better than A-weighting shaping filter. The noise reduction effect of the active noise control system is simulated. The results show that the control system proposed in this paper can improve the noise reduction effect compared with the system based on filtered-X LMS (filtered-X least mean square) and A-weighting shaping filter.