Reinforcement Learning: Creating a Custom Environment

Create a New Custom Environment using Open AI Gym

Renu Khandelwal
6 min readDec 21, 2022
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In this article, you will learn how to create a custom Environment using OpenAI Gym to train the Agent.

Reinforcement learning maps observations to actions to maximize the long-term reward. The Agent explores the Environment and finds the actions for which the Environment yields the most rewards.

Source:https://www.gymlibrary.dev/content/basic_usage/

Before you create a custom Environment, it is essential to know the characteristics of the RL Environment and how they are mapped in the OpenAI Gym

OpenAI Gym is a toolkit for Reinforcement learning research, and you will use it to create a custom Environment

The gym is an open-source Python library for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms. The Gym API models Reinforcement Learning environments as simple Python env classes, making Environment creation and interacting with it very simple.

Reinforcement Learning Environment has the following characteristics

  • State or Observation: A state or observation is a moment or instance of the…

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Renu Khandelwal

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