Pulsar profile construction based on Double-Redundant-Dictionary and Same-Scale L1-Norm compressed sensing

Spacecraft navigation in space requires high real-time. Towards this end, when using pulsar navigation, it is necessary to reduce the pulse profile construction time. In this paper, the method of constructing a pulse profile based on compressed sensing (CS) is improved from two aspects: Double Redundant Dictionary (DRD) search method and Same-Scale Li-Norm (SSLN) cost function. The method of calculating the optimal dimension of the DRD is given. A random observation matrix is designed. We provide both analytical and experimental evidence that supports our method. The proposed method is compared with the traditional methods of Amplitude Search (AS) and Hadamard Observation Matrix (HOM) in terms of computational complexity. Simulation using NASA data is consistent with the quantitative analysis. It is illustrated that DRD and SSLN can serve as an effective method with the resulting running time considerably less than that in AS or HOM. The proposed method gets a considerable reduction in pulse profile construction time. (C) 2018 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.