Recent experiments in active noise control (ANC) have used near-field error sensors whose locations are determined according to the minimization of sound power. Sensors should be placed in regions where the sound pressure reductions are the greatest during sound power minimization of the ANC system. Near-field pressure measurements of noise sources with and without ANC were made. With the error...

INTRODUCTION Cough intensity is an important determinant of cough severity reported by patients. Cough sound analysis has been widely validated for the measurement of cough frequency but few studies have validated its use in the assessment of cough strength. We investigated the relationship between cough sound and physiological measures of cough strength. METHODS 32 patients with chronic coug...

A model for the acoustic production of gravitational waves at a first-order phase transition is presented. The source of gravitational radiation is the sound waves generated by the explosive growth of bubbles of the stable phase. The model assumes that the sound waves are linear and that their power spectrum is determined by the characteristic form of the sound shell around the expanding bubble...

This paper presents a multi-modal sound source localization method for mobile platforms. The sound source localization is performed while the robot is autonomously navigating through the environment by combining the power and bearing estimation given by a steered response power (SRP) algorithm with the range estimation obtained from the on-board laser range finders (LRF). First the positions of...