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Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym

By : Palanisamy P
Book Image

Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym

By: Palanisamy P

Overview of this book

Many real-world problems can be broken down into tasks that require a series of decisions to be made or actions to be taken. The ability to solve such tasks without a machine being programmed requires a machine to be artificially intelligent and capable of learning to adapt. This book is an easy-to-follow guide to implementing learning algorithms for machine software agents in order to solve discrete or continuous sequential decision making and control tasks. Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym takes you through the process of building intelligent agent algorithms using deep reinforcement learning starting from the implementation of the building blocks for configuring, training, logging, visualizing, testing, and monitoring the agent. You will walk through the process of building intelligent agents from scratch to perform a variety of tasks. In the closing chapters, the book provides an overview of the latest learning environments and learning algorithms, along with pointers to more resources that will help you take your deep reinforcement learning skills to the next level.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Gym interface-compatible environments

In this section, we will have a deeper look into environments that are compatible with the Gym interface out of the box. You should be able to use any of the agents we developed in the previous chapters in these environments. Let's get started and look at a few very useful and promising learning environments.

Roboschool

Roboschool (https://github.com/openai/roboschool) provides several environments for controlling robots in simulation. It was released by OpenAI and the environments have the same interface as the OpenAI Gym environments that we have been using in this book. The Gym's MuJoCo-based environments offer a rich variety of robotic tasks, but MuJoCo requires a license...