Maximizing the acoustic contrast with constrained reconstruction error under a generalized pressure matching framework in sound zone control

In sound zone control, the pressure matching (PM) algorithm is generally considered to achieve relatively low acoustic contrast (AC) regardless of the desired sound field. In this paper, we propose a generalized PM framework to generate a desired sound field with variable AC. The framework indicates that the choice of the desired sound field solely determines the AC performance of PM when the physical setting and acoustic environment remain unchanged. In the extreme, PM obtains the same AC as the acoustic contrast control method, which is widely accepted as the algorithm leading to the maximum AC. Based on the proposed framework, we design a variant coordinate descent algorithm to adjust the desired sound field by maximizing the AC under the constraint of the reconstruction error. Simulation results validate the efficacy and flexibility of the proposed framework in constrained sound zone control. (C) 2022 Acoustical Society of America.