This thesis aims to present the development of a metaverse project for the KMITL Lifelong Learning Center (KLLC) and KMITL Data Management Center (KDMC) for Public Relations at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, with the main goal of creating a metaverse prototype to promote learning and public relations through virtual reality technology for students, staff, and external individuals. In this project, the developers have created a metaverse system to simulate a virtual experience for users at the KMITL Lifelong Learning Center (KLLC) and KMITL Data Management Center (KDMC) for Public Relations at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang. Users will be able to access the system through a web application developed with Unity, which is the tool used to create the metaverse system. The design allows users to visit and interact with various locations within the building to promote public relations in a more widespread virtual format. The developers used Maya and Unity software to create a metaverse system for modeling 3D objects and managing various functions, providing users with a realistic and novel experience. This project is expected to promote learning and the dissemination of information in an easily accessible modern format, creating opportunities for education and learning for those who cannot travel to see the actual locations. This makes metaverse technology an important tool for effectively developing learning and engagement in the digital age.
เนื่องจากปัจจุบันการประชาสัมพันธ์ด้วยเทคโนโลยีในรูปแบบ Metaverse ยังไม่เป็นที่นิยมและไม่ได้นำมาใช้อย่างแพร่หลายในประเทศไทย โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งในด้านการศึกษาเพื่อการเรียนรู้ผ่านระบบเมตาเวิร์ส โดยระบบ Metaverse คือเทคโนโลยีที่สามารถเชื่อมต่อทุกการสื่อสารบนโลกออนไลน์ ให้รวมกันเป็นหนึ่งเดียวได้เสมือนกับชุมชนบนโลกเสมือนจริงที่ให้สภาพแวดล้อมกับวัตถุต่าง ๆ รอบตัวที่เหมือนจริงมาก และสามารถเชื่อมต่อกันได้จะทำให้เกิดปฏิสัมพันธ์ซึ่งกันและกัน พร้อมการสร้างกิจกรรมร่วมกันได้ เช่น การพูดคุย การเดินสำรวจสิ่งก่อสร้าง การทำท่าทางต่างๆ เป็นต้น ซึ่งจะเห็นได้ว่าระบบ Metaverse สามารถนำมาประยุกต์ใช้ได้ในหลากหลายรูปแบบโดยขึ้นอยู่กับการนำเสนอของผู้ออกแบบ ปัจจุบันเทคโนโลยีในรูปแบบ Metaverse ที่ใช้เพื่อการประชาสัมพันธ์ในส่วนของศูนย์การเรียนรู้ตลอดชีวิต (KLLC) และสำนักบริหารข้อมูลดิจิทัล (KDMC) สถาบันเทคโนโลยีพระจอมเกล้าเจ้าคุณทหารลาดกระบังยังคงขาดการประชาสัมพันธ์เพื่อให้เป็นที่น่าสนใจและดึงดูดให้พื้นที่นี้เป็นที่รู้จักและน่าสนใจมากยิ่งขึ้น อีกทั้งยังได้รับประสบการณ์การใช้งานในรูปแบบโลกเสมือนจริง โดยผู้ใช้งานจะสามารถพูดคุยกัน เปิดกล้อง แชร์หน้าจอ ทำท่าทางต่างๆ และได้เห็นถึงโครงสร้างทั้งภายนอกและภายในของศูนย์การเรียนรู้ตลอดชีวิต (KLLC) และสำนักบริหารข้อมูลดิจิทัล (KDMC) สจล. ดังนั้น เราจึงสร้าง KMITL Lifelong Learning Center (KLLC) and Data Management Center (KDMC) ในรูปแบบ Metaverse ที่มีสภาพแวดล้อมเสมือนจริง เพื่อการประชาสัมพันธ์ให้กับผู้ที่ชื่นชอบการศึกษาเรียนรู้และผู้ที่สนใจในเทคโนโลยีเมตาเวิร์สและเพื่อให้ผู้ใช้งานได้สัมผัสกับประสบการณ์เสมือนจริงโดยตรงจากระบบ Metaverse
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The integration of intelligent robotic systems into human-centric environments, such as laboratories, hospitals, and educational institutions, has become increasingly important due to the growing demand for accessible and context-aware assistants. However, current solutions often lack scalability—for instance, relying on specialized personnel to repeatedly answer the same questions as administrators for specific departments—and adaptability to dynamic environments that require real-time situational responses. This study introduces a novel framework for an interactive robotic assistant (Beckerle et al. , 2017) designed to assist during laboratory tours and mitigate the challenges posed by limited human resources in providing comprehensive information to visitors. The proposed system operates through multiple modes, including standby mode and recognition mode, to ensure seamless interaction and adaptability in various contexts. In standby mode, the robot signals readiness with a smiling face animation while patrolling predefined paths or conserving energy when stationary. Advanced obstacle detection ensures safe navigation in dynamic environments. Recognition mode activates through gestures or wake words, using advanced computer vision and real-time speech recognition to identify users. Facial recognition further classifies individuals as known or unknown, providing personalized greetings or context-specific guidance to enhance user engagement. The proposed robot and its 3D design are shown in Figure 1. In interactive mode, the system integrates advanced technologies, including advanced speech recognition (ASR Whisper), natural language processing (NLP), and a large language model Ollama 3.2 (LLM Predictor, 2025), to provide a user-friendly, context-aware, and adaptable experience. Motivated by the need to engage students and promote interest in the RAI department, which receives over 1,000 visitors annually, it addresses accessibility gaps where human staff may be unavailable. With wake word detection, face and gesture recognition, and LiDAR-based obstacle detection, the robot ensures seamless communication in English, alongside safe and efficient navigation. The Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) human interaction system communicates with the mobile robot, built on ROS1 Noetic, using the MQTT protocol over Ethernet. It publishes navigation goals to the move_base module in ROS, which autonomously handles navigation and obstacle avoidance. A diagram is explained in Figure 2. The framework includes a robust back-end architecture utilizing a combination of MongoDB for information storage and retrieval and a RAG mechanism (Thüs et al., 2024) to process program curriculum information in the form of PDFs. This ensures that the robot provides accurate and contextually relevant answers to user queries. Furthermore, the inclusion of smiling face animations and text-to-speech (TTS BotNoi) enhanced user engagement metrics were derived through a combination of observational studies and surveys, which highlighted significant improvements in user satisfaction and accessibility. This paper also discusses capability to operate in dynamic environments and human-centric spaces. For example, handling interruptions while navigating during a mission. The modular design allows for easy integration of additional features, such as gesture recognition and hardware upgrades, ensuring long-term scalability. However, limitations such as the need for high initial setup costs and dependency on specific hardware configurations are acknowledged. Future work will focus on enhancing the system’s adaptability to diverse languages, expanding its use cases, and exploring collaborative interactions between multiple robots. In conclusion, the proposed interactive robotic assistant represents a significant step forward in bridging the gap between human needs and technological advancements. By combining cutting-edge AI technologies with practical hardware solutions, this work offers a scalable, efficient, and user-friendly system that enhances accessibility and user engagement in human-centric spaces.
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The concept of building a friendly city for older people by adjusting the physical environment is considered one of the crucial components of promoting older people’s better health and quality of life. Based on this tenet, designing a suitable footpath and considering older people’s needs are vital to the reduction of risks and the increase of safety in travelling, especially for older people living in Wat-Thad and Wat-Klang communities where the proportion of the elderly has continuously, increased. The research aimed to 1) survey the physical environment of footpath, approaching public assistance, 2) observe the elderly’s behavior and satisfaction on footpath in communities, and 3) create the proposal concept in developing the suitable footpath with the elderly’s need in city area. This research used various tools, including the questionnaire on the footpath’s physical environment to analyse problems, limitations, and footpath potentials, the interview of staff in the Engineering Division, Khon Kaen municipality and the questionnaires collecting travelling behaviour, satisfaction and attitude of elderly on the footpath in community. The data analysis the physical environment following six components in the monitoring list showed three used descriptive statistics. Interestingly, from 370 samples, the results of investigating qualified evaluations, namely 1) land utilisation in the communities, 2) linking the transportation network, and 3) beautifully attractive places for walking. However, three unqualified evaluations were 1) safety footpath availability, 2) design for all people, and 3) walking on the footpath to access public assistance and facilities. Moreover, the results from the questionnaire to study older people’s travelling behaviour, indicated that the most travelling objectives were grocery shopping and accessing the recreation sites with frequent visits three to five times per week. Furthermore, older people’s satisfaction with the community footpath was overall at a high level, This research proposed suggestions for developing a safe footpath to ensure safe walking access to facilities and public assistance.
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The designing of mosquitoes counting system instrument is presented in this work. The mosquitoes that were counted died in order not to measure duplicate counting data. As soon as the input source counting machine can detect the mosquito, the single trigger signal is transmitted to the IOT system to interrupt the server immediately. The number of real mosquito is not transmitting to the IOT but only a signal to interrupt the server. The server records the number of the interrupt signal with real-time clock. Then the interrupt information will be further handled. The front end counting machine consist of the high voltage generate with the suitable voltage value and electrode distance for the required mosquitoes size. The low trigger pulse signals of the mosquitoes killed by high voltage are sending to the controller unit. Immediately, interrupt counting signal of the number of mosquitoes is sent to the big stream data collection on IOT system by the time stamp technique. Form the measurement results, 10 live sample mosquitoes in a limited space box to fly though the counting machine show that the count results are 100% correct count.