A Design of the Robust Controller for an Active Noise Control

In this paper, a robust active noise controller is designed to reduce noise in al small cavity. Noise characteristics in the small cavity are nonlinear and we could get its model with considerable modelling errors. The objective of this paper is to minimize the effects of these modelling errors and maximize the noise reduction performance. The solution could be obtained by the H∞ robust control theory. The resulting feedback controller minimizes the H∞ norm of the mixed sensitivity function, which means the effects of uncertainties of the model are suppressed in the sense of stability and the performance is enhanced as a given specification. The designed controller is realized with analog devices such as Op. Amps and experimental results show that the controller reduces noise signal sufficiently.