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Abstract: In actual nonlinear active noise control (NANC) systems, there often exist nonlinear distortions in such cases: the primary path may be nonlinear, the reference noise may exhibit nonlinear distortion, and the secondary path may have nonminimum-phase. To solve the problems of nonlinear distortions, two novel feedback adaptive filters based on the functional link neural network (FLNN) for NANC systems with low computational complexity are proposed in this paper, which are a feedback functional link neural network (FFLNN) and a reduced feedback functional link neural network (RFFLNN), respectively. To train the proposed nonlinear filters for NANC systems, a reduced complexity filtered-s least mean square (FSLMS) algorithm using filter bank approach is developed. The analysis of computational complexity shows that the RFFLNN adaptive filter involves less computation as compared to FFLNN and FLNN adaptive filters. Moreover, it is demonstrated through computer simulations for nonlinear noise processes that the RFFLNN adaptive filter outperforms FLNN and FFLNN in term of convergence speed and steady-state error. Furthermore, it is more effective in reducing nonlinear effects in NANC systems than other filters. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Nonlinear intersymbol interference (ISI) leads to significant error rate in nonlinear communication and digital storage channel. In this paper, therefore, a novel computationally efficient functional link neural network cascaded with Chebyshev orthogonal polynomial is proposed to combat nonlinear ISI. The equalizer has a simple structure in which the nonlinearity is introduced by functional expansion of the input pattern by trigonometric polynomial and Chebyshev orthogonal polynomial. Due to the input pattern and nonlinear approximation enhancement, the proposed structure can approximate arbitrarily nonlinear decision boundaries. It has been utilized for nonlinear channel equalization. The performance of the proposed adaptive nonlinear equalizer is compared with functional link neural network (FLNN) equalizer, multilayer perceptron (MLP) network and radial basis function (RBF) along with conventional normalized least-mean-square algorithms (NLMS) for different linear and nonlinear channel models. The comparison of convergence rate, bit error rate (BER) and steady state error performance, and computational complexity involved for neural network equalizers is provided. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]