Event-triggered distributed state estimation for a class of time-varying systems over sensor networks with redundant channels

This paper is concerned with the distributed state estimation problem for a class of time-varying systems over sensor networks. An event-triggered communication scheme is utilized to save the constrained computation resource and network bandwidth while preserving the desired performance. The measurements on each node are transmitted to the estimators only when a certain triggering condition is satisfied. Moreover, in order to improve the reliability of data transmission services, we exploit redundant communication channels during the transmission process. The purpose of this paper is to design a set of time-varying state estimators such that the dynamics of the state estimation error satisfies the average H∞ performance constraints. The specific gains of the estimator can be obtained by calculating a series of recursive linear matrix inequalities (RLMIs). Finally, a simulation example is presented to show the effectiveness of the state estimation method proposed in this paper.