corradodebari / RL_p1Navigation

Udacity - Deep Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree Program. Project 1: train an agent to navigate in a large, square world.

Project 1: Navigation

Introduction

For this project, you will train an agent to navigate (and collect bananas!) in a large, square world.

A reward of +1 is provided for collecting a yellow banana, and a reward of -1 is provided for collecting a blue banana. Thus, the goal of your agent is to collect as many yellow bananas as possible while avoiding blue bananas.

The state space has 37 dimensions and contains the agent's velocity, along with ray-based perception of objects around agent's forward direction. Given this information, the agent has to learn how to best select actions. Four discrete actions are available, corresponding to:

• 0 - move forward.
• 1 - move backward.
• 2 - turn left.
• 3 - turn right.

The task is episodic, and in order to solve the environment, your agent must get an average score of +13 over 100 consecutive episodes.

Getting Started

Dependencies

To set up your python environment to run the code in this repository, follow the instructions below.

1. Install Miniconda software. Download it from: https://conda.io/miniconda.html

2. Create (and activate) a new environment with Python 3.6.

   • Linux or Mac:

   conda create --name drlnd python=3.6
   source activate drlnd

   • Windows:

   conda create --name drlnd python=3.6 
   activate drlnd

3. Clone the repository "corradodebari/RL_p1Navigation" from GitHub (NOTE: install git client before or, alternatively, download as zip file)

#git clone https://github.com/corradodebari/RL_p1Navigation.git  

4. Install Jupyter Notebook in the environment:

#pip install jupyter

5. Download the Unity environment from one of the links below. You need only select the environment that matches your operating system:

   • Linux: click here
   • Mac OSX: click here
   • Windows (32-bit): click here
   • Windows (64-bit): click here Unzip and copy under directory: RL_p1Navigation

   (For Windows users) Check out this link if you need help with determining if your computer is running a 32-bit version or 64-bit version of the Windows operating system.

   (For AWS) If you'd like to train the agent on AWS (and have not enabled a virtual screen), then please use this link to obtain the environment.

6. Create an IPython kernel for the drlnd environment.

python -m ipykernel install --user --name drlnd --display-name "drlnd"

7. Run the notebook:

#cd RL_p1Navigation
#jupyter notebook --ip=0.0.0.0 --allow-root

8. Before running code in a notebook, change the kernel to match the drlnd environment by using the drop-down Kernel menu.

Instructions

Follow the instructions in Report.ipynb to get started with training your own agent!