About this Research Topic
We are on the cusp of a revolution in the transportation sector, driven by the significant progress on electric powertrains, robotics, and autonomous systems. We can expect drones and urban air mobility vehicles to inundate our skies in the coming years with the addition of electric vehicles and two-wheeled means of transport on the ground.
Electric mobility (E-mobility) will introduce entirely new noise sources. For instance, novel air vehicles, from drones to electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOL), will bring unconventional noise signatures (i.e., tonal and high frequency dominated), and will operate over urban communities not usually exposed to aircraft noise. On the ground, electric vehicles must generate noise artificially to alert other road users. All these new sources, along with the wider adoption of Air Source Heat Pumps and car charging stations, will lead to large soundscape shifts with potentially negative consequences for local communities.
Industry 5.0 is pushing for a translation to a sustainable and human-centric industry. Rather than conventional noise control methods and ad-hoc solutions, this requires integrating human factors into the design of products and systems. Perceptually-driven acoustic design is, thus, required and it needs to be integrated much earlier in the design cycle of systems such as e-mobility vehicles, which include urban air mobility vehicles. To materialize this integration, new psychoacoustic models and auralisation capabilities are needed to optimize vehicle design and operation to ensure that the new noise signatures do not significantly impact the existing soundscape.
The aim of the current Research Topic is to cover promising, recent, and novel research trends in the perception-driven acoustic engineering field. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Transportation noise (including aircraft, road and railway noise)
• Wind turbine noise
• New psychoacoustic models for human response to noise
• Auralisation techniques
• Novel noise metrics
• Psychoacoustic optimisation of system design
• Soundscape assessment of e-mobility
• Experimental methods and facilities for psychoacoustic testing
Electric mobility (E-mobility) will introduce entirely new noise sources. For instance, novel air vehicles, from drones to electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOL), will bring unconventional noise signatures (i.e., tonal and high frequency dominated), and will operate over urban communities not usually exposed to aircraft noise. On the ground, electric vehicles must generate noise artificially to alert other road users. All these new sources, along with the wider adoption of Air Source Heat Pumps and car charging stations, will lead to large soundscape shifts with potentially negative consequences for local communities.
Industry 5.0 is pushing for a translation to a sustainable and human-centric industry. Rather than conventional noise control methods and ad-hoc solutions, this requires integrating human factors into the design of products and systems. Perceptually-driven acoustic design is, thus, required and it needs to be integrated much earlier in the design cycle of systems such as e-mobility vehicles, which include urban air mobility vehicles. To materialize this integration, new psychoacoustic models and auralisation capabilities are needed to optimize vehicle design and operation to ensure that the new noise signatures do not significantly impact the existing soundscape.
The aim of the current Research Topic is to cover promising, recent, and novel research trends in the perception-driven acoustic engineering field. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Transportation noise (including aircraft, road and railway noise)
• Wind turbine noise
• New psychoacoustic models for human response to noise
• Auralisation techniques
• Novel noise metrics
• Psychoacoustic optimisation of system design
• Soundscape assessment of e-mobility
• Experimental methods and facilities for psychoacoustic testing
Keywords: Perception-driven design, Psychoacoustics, Auralisation, Auralization, Sound Quality Metrics, Noise Annoyance, Human Response to Noise, Psychoacoustic Experiments
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