TY - GEN
T1 - Contaminant event monitoring in intelligent buildings using a multi-zone formulation
AU - Michaelides, Michalis P.
AU - Reppa, Vasso
AU - Panayiotou, Christos
AU - Polycarpou, Marios
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The dispersion of contaminants from sources (events) inside a building can compromise the indoor air quality and influence the occupants' comfort, health, productivity and safety. These events could be the result of an accident, faulty equipment or a planned attack. Under these safety-critical conditions, immediate event detection should be guaranteed and the proper actions should be taken to ensure the safety of the people. In this paper, we consider an event as a fault in the process that disturbs the normal system operation. Furthermore, we demonstrate how the problem of monitoring the indoor air quality in intelligent buildings against the presence of contaminant sources fits the usual framework of fault detection, isolation, identification and accommodation. Specifically, we develop a multi-zone formulation using state space equations that enables the use of fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control techniques for monitoring contaminant events inside the building environment. We demonstrate our proposed formulation for the problem of isolating multiple contaminant sources using an estimation scheme in a nine zone building setting.
AB - The dispersion of contaminants from sources (events) inside a building can compromise the indoor air quality and influence the occupants' comfort, health, productivity and safety. These events could be the result of an accident, faulty equipment or a planned attack. Under these safety-critical conditions, immediate event detection should be guaranteed and the proper actions should be taken to ensure the safety of the people. In this paper, we consider an event as a fault in the process that disturbs the normal system operation. Furthermore, we demonstrate how the problem of monitoring the indoor air quality in intelligent buildings against the presence of contaminant sources fits the usual framework of fault detection, isolation, identification and accommodation. Specifically, we develop a multi-zone formulation using state space equations that enables the use of fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control techniques for monitoring contaminant events inside the building environment. We demonstrate our proposed formulation for the problem of isolating multiple contaminant sources using an estimation scheme in a nine zone building setting.
KW - Contaminant event monitoring
KW - Fault isolation
KW - Indoor air quality
KW - Intelligent buildings
KW - Multi-zone model
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867049164&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3182/20120829-3-MX-2028.00100
DO - 10.3182/20120829-3-MX-2028.00100
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867049164
SN - 9783902823090
T3 - IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
SP - 492
EP - 497
BT - 8th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, SAFEPROCESS 2012
PB - IFAC Secretariat
T2 - 8th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, SAFEPROCESS 2012
Y2 - 29 August 2012 through 31 August 2012
ER -