“…Regarding large-scale interconnected systems, the problem of estimating the states of each subsystem is very important, since the information of local state estimates at the subsystem level is of paramount importance to the purpose of system monitoring and/or observer-based control implementation (Arif et al, 2017; Huong, 2016; Lee et al, 2013; Mobayen and Tchier, 2017; Pham et al, 2016; Swarnakar et al, 2008; Yu et al, 2016). Furthermore, time delay is certain to happen in many dynamical systems and majorly contributes to instability, oscillations and degradation in system performance (Gao and Chen, 2007; Gao et al, 2008; Kokil, 2017; Majd and Mobayen, 2015; Mobayen, 2014, 2015; Mobayen and Tchier, 2016). Therefore, the problem of the state observer’s design for interconnected systems with time delays is essential and important for both theoretical and practical reasons.…”