Decentralized robust control of a vehicle’s interior sound field

Abstract

In this article, a decentralized strategy is applied for active control of sound inside the automobile cabin by considering the uncertainty caused by the movement of the occupants. A coupled structural-acoustic analysis is done on the simplified geometry of the automobile cabin with passengers by the finite element method. The uncertainty caused by changes in the occupants’ head positions and angles is also considered. Then, a decentralized robust feedback control strategy is proposed to reduce the sound pressure level in the ears of all the occupants using the H∞ method for each individual control unit by considering the unstructured uncertainty of the plant. The efficiency of the proposed control strategy in minimizing the sound pressure level caused by the structural disturbance on the firewall panel is investigated.

Decentralized Controller Design for Large-Scale Uncertain Discrete-Time Systems with Non-Block-Diagonal Output Matrix

“…Having obtained its maturity during recent decades, decentralized and robust control ( [1][2][3][4][5][6] and others mentioned in this article) still belong to the topical issues of control theory and practice. The concept of a large-scale system highlights the fundamental feature of a complex system for which centralized control is challenging or unfeasible due to its sheer size and complexity.…”