TY - GEN N2 - Indoor Air Quality monitoring is an essential ingredient of intelligent buildings. The release of various airborne contaminants into the buildings, compromises the health and safety of occupants. Therefore, early contaminant detection is of paramount importance for the timely activation of proper contingency plans in order to minimize the impact of contaminants on occupants health. The objective of this work is to enhance the performance of a distributed contaminant detection methodology, in terms of the minimum detectable contaminant release rates, by considering the joint problem of partitioning selection and observer gain design. Towards this direction, a detectability analysis is performed to derive appropriate conditions for the minimum guaranteed detectable contaminant release rate for specific partitioning configuration and observer gains. The derived detectability conditions are then exploited to formulate and solve an optimization problem for jointly selecting the partitioning configuration and observer gains that yield the best contaminant detection performance. ID - discovery10060822 PB - IEEE UR - https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2018.8619262 SN - 2576-2370 A1 - Kyriacou, A A1 - Timotheou, S A1 - Reppa, V A1 - Boem, F A1 - Panayiotou, C A1 - Polycarpou, MM A1 - Parisini, T KW - Buildings KW - Observers KW - Detectors KW - Optimization KW - Uncertainty KW - Pollution measurement KW - Monitoring TI - Optimization Based Partitioning Selection for Improved Contaminant Detection Performance AV - public Y1 - 2019/01// SP - 5568 EP - 5573 N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. ER -