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Project 3: Collaboration and Competition

Introduction

For this project, we will work with the Tennis environment.

Trained Agent

In this environment, two agents control rackets to bounce a ball over a net. If an agent hits the ball over the net, it receives a reward of +0.1. If an agent lets a ball hit the ground or hits the ball out of bounds, it receives a reward of -0.01. Thus, the goal of each agent is to keep the ball in play.

The observation space consists of 8 variables corresponding to the position and velocity of the ball and racket. Each agent receives its own, local observation. Two continuous actions are available, corresponding to movement toward (or away from) the net, and jumping.

The task is episodic, and in order to solve the environment, our agents must get an average score of +0.5 (over 100 consecutive episodes, after taking the maximum over both agents). Specifically,

  • After each episode, we add up the rewards that each agent received (without discounting), to get a score for each agent. This yields 2 (potentially different) scores. We then take the maximum of these 2 scores.
  • This yields a single score for each episode.

The environment is considered solved, when the average (over 100 episodes) of those scores is at least +0.5.

The chosen method here is to have two seperate ddpg agents which share memories of past episodes which are used for training.

Getting Started

For my setup, I have developed in Anaconda environment in a Windows 10 machine.

  1. Please follow the instructions in https://github.com/udacity/deep-reinforcement-learning#dependencies to install all the dependencies required for this project. In addition to this pytorch 1.4.0 was installed locally instead of pytorch 0.4.0

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

    (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 "headless" version of the environment. You will not be able to watch the agent without enabling a virtual screen, but you will be able to train the agent. (To watch the agent, you should follow the instructions to enable a virtual screen, and then download the environment for the Linux operating system above.)

  3. Place the file in the DRLND GitHub repository, in the p3_collab-compet/ folder, and unzip (or decompress) the file.

Instructions

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

The ddpg_agent.py contains the implementation for the agent network.

The model.py contains the model architecture defined for the actor and critic that is used by the ddpg agent.