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MuJoCo is the standard in much of robotics, and recently in the Deep RL space. When I was learning Deep RL, I edged on what could be done through OpenAI gym, o
by rg111 5y ago
MuJoCo is the standard in much of robotics, and recently in the Deep RL space.
When I was learning Deep RL, I edged on what could be done through OpenAI gym, or self-made environments, I decided to begin working with MuJoCo.
But for an undergrad student from a developing country, the fees were extremely high.
So, I just didn't go forward with Deep RL much. I dabbled for a while and tried using PyBullet. Did not go that well.
Also thought about creating custom environments in Unity and then apply Deep RL in there. But it took too much effort.
Creating a complex enough environment and getting used to it were, in themselves- full projects that took long term commitment.
As a result, I did not learn much Deep RL to be able to apply it to complex, real-world-like scenarios.
I think that it is going to change.
I am excited about books, blogs, and videos that are going to be created as MuJoCo is open-sourced and available for free.
I, personally, will get back into Deep RL the next opportunity I get.
- 5faulker 5y agoIt would still be a while that we achieve emergence (if that's even possible) anyway, so time is kind of on our side.
- EvgeniyZh 5y agoPretty sure it had free educational license tho
- rg111 5y agoMy uni was not rich enough to have an email server for students. So, I did not have a uni mail address. That was required.
- okay475008 5y agogo to literally any college you can probably walk to one near you if you live in a city, sign up for a basic program, and get a free email address. sounds dumb, but if you sign up to talk an extra language you'll have your email address you so desperatly need in your life
- CryingSofa 5y agoSomewhat. The free educational license was only acceptable for 'personal' projects, so not suitable for class work.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoSurely that kind of use would have been fine. What they're trying to do with that questionnaire must be to determine if you're making money from the venture. You can share your diary with others and still call it personal, after all. (Once you get a publisher involved, not so much.)
- currymj 5y agoyou could install that license on one physical machine. so say you want to use a Colab or cloud GPU or something, or your university compute cluster, it wouldn’t work.
- TaylorAlexander 5y agoI similarly did not get in to using MuJoCo because I want all my work to be reproducible with open source. So I spent time trying to get RL working in Godot video game engine, but ran in to some road blocks. I know MuJoCo already has all the necessary pipelines so this is exciting indeed!
- pol4ko 5y agoHi. Do you mind sharing more of your work with Godot? I'm working in a similar project for software testing.