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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Attenuation of Harmonic Distortion in Loudspeakers Using Non-linear Control / Olinjär reglering för dämpning av harmonisk distorsion i högtalare

Arvidsson, Marcus, Karlsson, Daniel January 2012 (has links)
The first loudspeaker was invented almost 150 years ago and even though much has changed regarding the manufacturing, the main idea is still the same. To produce clean sound, modern loudspeaker consist of expensive materials that often need advanced manufacturing equipment. The relatively newly established company Actiwave AB uses digital signal processing to enhance the audio for loudspeakers with poor acoustic properties. Their algorithms concentrate on attenuating the linear distortion but there is no compensation for the loudspeakers' non-linear distortion, such as harmonic distortion. To attenuate the harmonic distortion, this thesis presents controllers based on exact input-output linearisation. This type of controller needs an accurate model of the system. A loudspeaker model has been derived based on the LR-2 model, an extension of the more common Thiele-Small model. A controller based on exact input-output linearisation also needs full state feedback, but since feedback risk being expensive, state estimators were used. The state estimators were based on feed-forward or observers using the extended Kalman filter or the unscented Kalman filter. A combination of feed-forward state estimation and a PID controller were designed as well. In simulations, the total harmonic distortion was attenuated for all controllers up to 180 Hz. The simulations also showed that the controllers are sensitive to inaccurate parameter values in the loudspeaker model. During real-life experiments, the controllers needed to be extended with a model of the used amplifier to function properly. The controllers that were able to attenuate the harmonic distortion were the two methods using feed-forward state estimation. Both controllers showed improvement compared to the uncontrolled case for frequencies up to 40 Hz.

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