Event-Triggered Partial-Nodes-Based State Estimation for Delayed Complex Networks with Bounded Distributed Delays

In this paper, the state estimation problem is investigated for a class of continuous-time complex networks with bounded distributed delay. For the network under consideration, only the outputs from a fraction of nodes are available and this put forward the new challenge, that is, the so-called partial-nodes-based state estimation problem. In order to reduce the usage of the communication resources, a general event-triggering rule is considered in the design of the estimator. A novel estimator is constructed and, by constructing novel Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, some easy-to-check conditions are derived such that the error dynamics is exponentially ultimately bounded. Furthermore, it is shown that the Zeno behavior can be excluded from the event-triggering rules. Numerical simulations are presented to further illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.