Novel construction of measurement matrix and sparse basis to accelerate compressive sensing for solving wideband RCS of PEC objects

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel approach to enhance the computational efficiency and precision of the ultra‐wideband characteristic basis function method based on compressive sensing for calculating the wideband radar cross section (RCS) of objects, which involves the development of a new method for filling measurement matrix and constructing sparse basis. While randomly selecting rows from the original impedance matrix as the measurement matrix, the proposed method also avoids the double‐filling of equal elements in the measurement matrix. Furthermore, the Foldy–Lax equation is utilized to construct the merged ultra‐wideband characteristic basis functions (MUCBFs) at the highest frequency, and the sparse transform of the induced currents is performed using MUCBFs as the sparse basis. The numerical simulation results show that this method not only reduces the calculation effort of impedance matrix filling, but also effectively improves the calculation precision of the target wideband RCS.