{"id":339,"date":"2020-08-31T06:54:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2023-08-03T10:14:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T10:14:36","slug":"leveraging-artificial-intelligence-in-unity-using-ml-agents-series-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icomputinglabs.in\/blog\/leveraging-artificial-intelligence-in-unity-using-ml-agents-series-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Unity using ML-Agents (Series Post)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unity ML-Agents toolkit is a new plugin based on the game engine Unity that allows us to use the Unity Game Engine as an environment builder to train agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From playing football, learning to walk, to jumping big walls, to training a cute doggy to catch sticks, Unity ML-Agents Toolkit provides a ton of amazing pre-made environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, we can also create new learning environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Unity ML-Agents works?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unity ML-Agents is a new plugin for the game engine Unity that allows us to create or use pre-made environments to train our agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three components<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With Unity ML-Agents, we have three important components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Unity ML-Agents Documentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is the Learning Environment (on Unity),<\/em> that contains the Unity scene and the environment elements.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is the Python API <\/em>that contains the (Reinforcement Learning) RL algorithms<\/strong> (such as PPO and SAC). We use this API to launch training, to test, etc. It communicates with the Learning environment through the third component called external communicator.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside the Learning Environment<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Inside the Learning Environment, we have different elements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: Unity ML-Agents Documentation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is the Agent, the actor of the scene. <\/strong>It\u2019s him that we\u2019re going to train by optimizing his policy (that will tell us what action to take at each state) called Brain.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, there is the Academy, this element orchestrates agents and their decision-making process. <\/strong>Think of this Academy as a maestro that handles the requests from the python API.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To better understand its role let\u2019s remember the RL process. This can be modeled as a loop that works like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: Sutton\u2019s Book<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, let\u2019s imagine an agent learning to play a platform game. The RL process looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Our agent receives state S0 from the environment \u2014 we receive the first frame of our game (environment).<\/li>
  • Based on the state S0, the agent takes an action A0 \u2014 our agent will move to the right.<\/li>
  • The environment transitions to a new state S1.<\/li>
  • Give a reward R1 to the agent \u2014 we\u2019re not dead (Positive Reward +1)<\/em>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    This RL loop outputs a sequence of state, action, and reward. The goal of the agent is to maximize the expected cumulative reward.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    In fact, the Academy will be the one that will send the order to our Agents and ensure that agents are in sync<\/strong>. It will also perform these actions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • Collect Observations<\/li>
    • Select your action using your policy<\/li>
    • Take the Action<\/li>
    • Reset if you reached the max step or if you\u2019re done<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      In next post, we will explain in detail how to train agents for various scenarios. Stay tuned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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