In this paper, we propose horizontal active noise control (ANC) using two-dimensional wave field information alone. By reducing the control space to a horizontal plane, the number of microphones and speakers was considerably reduced compared with ANC systems using three-dimensional wave field information. The radii of the reference, microphone, and loudspeaker array were determined based on the wave field reproduction error. Accordingly, the simulation and experimental results of the proposed ANC system were presented based on the use of five microphones and loudspeakers using conventional ANC algorithms. Overall, an average noise reduction of 20 dB was observed inside the microphone array with a radius of 0.5 m for tonal noise at 200 Hz. This performance is acceptable with a drastically reduced number of microphones and speakers. The findings of this study, along with further research conducted in a reverberant room, represent a significant contribution to global ANC commercialization.
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