N2 - Vibrating plates can be used in Active Noise Control (ANC) applications as active barriers or as secondary sources replacing classical loudspeakers. The system with vibrating plates, especially when nonlinear MFC actuators are used, is nonlinear. The nonlinearity in the system reduces performance of classical feedforward ANC with linear control filters systems, because they cannot cope with harmonics generated by the nonlinearity. The performance of the ANC system can be improved by using nonlinear control filters, such as Artificial Neural Networks or Volterra filters. However, when multiple actuators are mounted on a single plate, which is a common practice to provide effective control of more vibration modes, each actuator should be driven by a dedicated nonlinear control filter. This significantly increases computational complexity of the control algorithm, because adaptation of nonlinear control filters is much more computationally demanding than adaptation of linear FIR filters. This paper presents an ANC system with multiple actuators, which are driven with a single nonlinear filter. To avoid destructive interference of vibrations generated by different actuators the control signal is filtered by appropriate separate linear filters. The control system is experimentally verified and obtained results are reported. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/101558/PDF/11_paper.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/101558 PY - 2013 IS - No 4 EP - 545 DO - 10.2478/aoa-2013-0063 KW - active noise-vibration control KW - active structural acoustic control KW - adaptive control KW - nonlinear-control A1 - Mazur, Krzysztof A1 - Pawełczyk, Marek PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Committee on Acoustics VL - vol. 38 DA - 2013 T1 - Active Noise Control with a Single Nonlinear Control Filter for a Vibrating Plate with Multiple Actuators SP - 537 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/101558 T2 - Archives of Acoustics