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This study presents effective method to provide user's visual comfort and reduce power consumption through the optimization of display luminance and gamma curve for using mobile display in low ambient conditions. Visual assessment was carried out to obtain appropriate display luminance for visual comfort, and gamma curve was optimized to obtain power saving effect without reducing image quality in lower luminance than in appropriate luminance. This suggested method was verified through perceptual experiment and power consumption measurement.

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In a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-restricted area, a mobile robot navigation system exploits surrounding environment information. For an aerial or underwater vehicle, undulating terrain of a land or seabed surface is a valuable information resource that leads to the development of terrain-referenced navigation (TRN) algorithms. However, due to the vast amount of a vehicle's activity area, surveying all the regions to obtain a high-resolution terrain map is impractical and requires simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) as a highly desirable capability. This paper presents a topographic SLAM algorithm using only a single terrain altimeter, which is low-cost, computationally efficient, and sufficiently stable for long-term operation. The proposed rectangular panel map structure and update method enable robust and efficient SLAM. As terrain elevation changes are inherently nonlinear, an extended Kalman filter (EKF)-based SLAM filter is adopted. The feasibility and validity of the proposed algorithm are demonstrated through simulations using terrain elevation data from a real-world undersea environment.