An introduction to OpenAI Gym

In the previous chapter, we provided a practical overview of what you can expect in RL when applied to robotics. In this chapter, we will provide a general view in which you will discover how RL is used to train smart agents.

First, we will need to install OpenAI Gym and OpenAI ROS on our laptop in preparation for the practical examples. Then, we will explain its concepts.

Installing OpenAI Gym

As we did in the previous chapter, we are going to create a virtual environment for the Python setup of this chapter, which we will call gym. The following two commands allow for the creation and then the activation of gym:

$ conda create -n gym pip python=2.7
$ conda activate gym

Following this, install...