Active noise control for motorcycle helmets

Author

Raghunathan, Kishan P. ; Kuo, Sen M. ; Gan, Woon S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

21-23 June 2010

Firstpage

170

Lastpage

174

Abstract

Continuous exposure to high-level of motorcycle noise has a risk of damaging hearing and degrading the quality of music for entertainment. This paper develops an innovative audio-integrated active noise control (ANC) system for motorcycle helmets to cancel noise and preserve the audio quality. Motorcycle noises measured at different speeds are recorded, analyzed and used to evaluate the performance of audio-integrated ANC system. Both computer simulations and real-time experiments show the feasibility of using the developed ANC helmets for hearing protection and audio entertainment.

Keywords

active noise control; feedforward; motorcycles; road traffic; active noise control; audio entertainment; audio quality; hearing protection; innovative audio-integrated noise control; motorcycle helmets; noise cancellation; Active noise reduction; Auditory system; Computer simulation; Control systems; Degradation; Motorcycles; Noise cancellation; Noise measurement; Performance analysis; Velocity measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Green Circuits and Systems (ICGCS), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6876-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6877-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGCS.2010.5543073

Filename

5543073