Instructions to setup environment for Open AI Gym and HER experiments

HERSetup.md

Instructions for Env Setup

VMWare Setup

• Download Trial Version for Parallels Desktop
• Create an account on Parallels
• Install Ubuntu in Parallels
• Install parallels tools and restart ubuntu
• Install chrome for easy access

Miniconda Install

• Download bash executable for Miniconda
• Install Miniconda

  $ cd Downloads
  $ chmod +x Miniconda.sh
  $ ./Miniconda.sh
  

• Install dependencies for gym:

  $ sudo apt install cmake zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev xvfb libav-tools xorg-dev libboost-all-dev libsdl2-dev swig
  

• Download and setup Mujoco:
  • Obtain license for Mujoco from website.
  • Download mujoco and save in home folder under ~/.mujoco folder
  • Copy mjkey.txt to ~/.mujoco folder
• Install mujoco-py, gym, baselines:

  $ sudo apt install libosmesa6-dev
  $ conda install -c anaconda patchelf
  $ pip install mujoco-py
  $ git clone https://github.com/openai/baselines.git
  $ cd baselines
  $ pip install -e .
  

• Download HER starter code:

  $ git clone https://github.com/buntyke/her.git
  $ cd her
  $ python dqn_her.py -h