Transfer functions of FXLMS-based Multi-channel Multi-tone Active Noise Equalizers

Abstract: Multi-channel Multi-tone Active Noise Equalizers can achieve different user-selected noise spectrum profiles even at different space positions. They can apply a different equalization factor at each noise frequency component and each control point. Theoretically, the value of the transfer function at the frequencies where the noise signal has energy is determined by the equalizer configuration. In this work, we show how to calculate these transfer functions with a double aim: to verify that at the frequencies of interest the values imposed by the equalizer settings are obtained, and to characterize the behavior of these transfer functions in the rest of the spectrum, as well as to get clues to predict the convergence behaviour of the algorithm. The information provided thanks to these transfer functions serves as a practical alternative to the cumbersome statistical analysis of convergence, whose results are often of no practical use.