Publications related to Acoustic Mapping for Active Transformer Quieting Applications Based on a Modular DSP Platform

A mmWave Low Complexity and Low-Cost Super Wideband Dual-Polarized Aperture Coupled Antenna for 5G Applications

Advanced antenna system (AAS) is a viable option for 5G millimeter-wave (mmWave) applications. AAS single element is favored to be dual-polarized, wideband, high gain, and compact in order to be utilized for 5G antenna arrays. In this paper, a low complexi ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Corona discharge actuator as an active sound absorber under normal and oblique incidence

Thomas Humbert, Hervé Lissek, Stanislav Sergeev

In the majority of active sound absorbing systems, a conventional electrodynamic loudspeaker is used as a controlled source. However, particular situations may require an actuator that is more resistant to harsh environments, adjustable in shape, and light ...

2022

Sound Field Reconstruction in a room through Sparse Recovery and its application in Room Modal Equalization

Vu Thach Pham

The acoustics of a room often refer to the quality of the room in terms of sound recording as well as sound reproduction. At low frequencies, where the wavelengths are of the same order of magnitude with the dimensions of the room, due to the standing wave ...

EPFL2021

Multi-Variable High-Frequency Input-Admittance of Grid-Connected Converters: Modeling, Validation and Implications on Stability

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández, Marc Ferrer Duran

Modern grids are facing a massive integration of power electronics devices, usually associated to instability issues. In order to assess the likelihood and severity of harmonic instability in the high frequency region, this work develops a multi-variable i ...

2019

Micromechanical resonators with sub-micron gaps filled with high-k dielectrics

Mariazel de la Candelas Maqueda López

Scaled microelectromechanical (MEMS) resonating devices have generated a great interest for their use in RF front-end architectures for wireless communication, channel-select filters, on-chip signal processing and timing and extreme mas sensing application ...

EPFL2017

Method and apparatus for presenting to a user of a wearable apparatus additional information related to an audio scene

Martin Vetterli, Juri Ranieri, Ivan Dokmanic

A method for presenting to a user of a wearable audio device a modified audio scene together with additional information related to the audio scene, comprising: capturing audio signals with a plurality of microphones; outputting an audio signal with a plur ...

2017

Enabling Speech Applications using Ad Hoc Microphone Arrays

Mohammadjavad Taghizadeh

Microphone arrays are central players in hands-free speech interface applications. The main duty of a microphone array is capturing distant-talking speech with high quality. A microphone array can acquire the desired speech signals selectively by leading t ...

EPFL2015

Electroacoustic metamaterials: achieving negative acoustic properties with shunt loudspeakers

Hervé Lissek

Acoustic metamaterials constitute a new class of structures that exhibit acoustic properties not readily available in nature. These properties can be a negative mass density, expressing the opposition of the acceleration of a particle to the application of ...

2013

Spatial Acoustic Signal Processing

Mihailo Kolundzija

A sound field on a line or in a plane has an effectively limited spatial bandwidth determined by the temporal frequency. Similar can be said for sound fields from far-field sources when analyzed on circular and spherical apertures. Namely, for a given freq ...

EPFL2012

Electroacoustic absorbers II: implementation of a digital synthetic admittance for controlling the dynamics of electroacoustic absorbers

Hervé Lissek, Romain Boulandet, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet

This paper discusses the implementation of a synthetic electrical admittance for controlling the dynamics of electroacoustic absorbers. Indeed, different basic control techniques are capable of varying the acoustic impedance of an electroacoustic transduce ...

2011

A versatile DC/DC converter based on Modular Multilevel Converter for energy collection and distribution

Alfred Rufer, Stephan Kenzelmann, Drazen Dujic

A topology based on the Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is presented, using two MMC linked by a medium frequency transformer. The back to back structure proves to have effective circuit breaker properties and reduced passive components. Due to the adopt ...

2011

Method and Device for Removing Echo in an Audio Signal

Christof Faller

Acoustic echo control and noise suppression is an important part of any "handsfree" telecommunication system, such as telephony or audio or video conferencing systems. Bandwidth and computational complexity constraints have prevented that stereo or multi-c ...

2010

Shunt loudspeakers for modal control in rooms

Pierre-Jean René, Hervé Lissek, Romain Boulandet

Engineers dealing with noise reduction in habitations close to transportation traffic or indus-trial facilities encounter several problems to decrease noise level in rooms at low frequencies. Passive materials and current building construction knowledge en ...

2009

Beamforming with a Maximum Negentropy Criterion

Weifeng Li, Philip Neil Garner

In this paper, we address a beamforming application based on the capture of far-field speech data from a single speaker in a real meeting room. After the position of the speaker is estimated by a speaker tracking system, we construct a subband-domain beamf ...

2009

Verified Speaker Localization Utilizing Voicing Level in Split-bands

Afsaneh Asaei, Mohammadjavad Taghizadeh

This paper proposes a joint verification-localization structure based on split-band analysis of speech signal and the mixed voicing level. To address the problems in reverberant acoustic environments, a new fundamental frequency estimation algorithm is pro ...

2009

Method And Device For Removing Echo In A Multi-Channel Audio Signal

Christof Faller

Acoustic echo control and noise suppression is an important part of any "handsfree" telecommunication system, such as telephony or audio or video conferencing systems. Bandwidth and computational complexity constraints have prevented that stereo or multi-c ...

2008

Effect of intelligent antennas on radio system planning and on mitigation

Juliane Iten Chaves Simoes

Smart antennas have been recently applied to improve the capacity and the performance of second generation wireless mobile communication systems. In general, smart antennas reduce the effects of multipath fading and improve the signal-to-noise-plus-interfe ...

EPFL2008