Experimental evidences of nonlinear programmable electroacoustic loudspeaker

A two degrees-of-freedom system coupling an acoustical mode of a closed tube to an electroacoustic loudspeaker is considered. A model-inversion technique is presented to digitally program the impedance of the loudspeaker for reaching a targeted nonlinear behavior. Experimental results show that the programed nonlinearity can guide the system to both periodic and non-periodic responses while acoustical levels for activation of the nonlinearity are less than the ones for systems with passive nonlinear oscillators (94 and 100 dB in this paper compared to 138 dB in previous papers), allowing building applications. Moreover, it is spotted that the programed nonlinearity of the electroacoustic loudspeaker, even in its non-optimized form, performs nonlinear noise control for some frequency ranges. The main objective of this article is to show that it is possible to program the behavior of an electroacoustic loudspeaker.

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This article studies a two degrees-of-freedom system that couples the acoustical mode of a closed tube to an electroacoustic loudspeaker. A model-inversion technique is proposed to digitally program the loudspeaker's impedance for achieving a desired nonlinear behavior. Experimental results demonstrate that the programmed nonlinearity can guide the system to exhibit both periodic and non-periodic responses with lower acoustical activation levels compared to systems with passive nonlinear oscillators, making it suitable for building applications. Furthermore, it is observed that the programmed nonlinearity of the electroacoustic loudspeaker, even in its non-optimized form, can perform nonlinear noise control in certain frequency ranges.