  Parallel acquisition systems are employed successfully in a variety of
different sensing applications when a single sensor cannot provide enough
measurements for a high-quality reconstruction. In this paper, we consider
compressed sensing (CS) for parallel acquisition systems when the individual
sensors use subgaussian random sampling. Our main results are a series of
uniform recovery guarantees which relate the number of measurements required to
the basis in which the solution is sparse and certain characteristics of the
multi-sensor system, known as sensor profile matrices. In particular, we derive
sufficient conditions for optimal recovery, in the sense that the number of
measurements required per sensor decreases linearly with the total number of
sensors, and demonstrate explicit examples of multi-sensor systems for which
this holds. We establish these results by proving the so-called Asymmetric
Restricted Isometry Property (ARIP) for the sensing system and use this to
derive both nonuniversal and universal recovery guarantees. Compared to
existing work, our results not only lead to better stability and robustness
estimates but also provide simpler and sharper constants in the measurement
conditions. Finally, we show how the problem of CS with block-diagonal sensing
matrices can be viewed as a particular case of our multi-sensor framework.
Specializing our results to this setting leads to a recovery guarantee that is
at least as good as existing results.
