gym-soccer

The Soccer environment is a multiagent domain featuring continuous state and action spaces.

Changes

Several changes have been made to more closely reflect the setup used by [Hausknecht & Stone 2016]:

The number of steps without touching the ball before ending an episode has been reduced to 100.
The reward function has abeen updated to reflect the one used in their code (https://github.com/mhauskn/dqn-hfo). Specifically, the negative reward given for the distance between the ball and goal is only activated once the agent is in possession of the ball. A separate environment has been created with this change: SoccerScoreGoal-v0. It is the same as SoccerEmptyGoal-v0 except for the reward function.
The state of the environment is returned after each step (useful for counting the number of goals).

Tasks

There are several tasks supported at the moment:

Soccer

The soccer task initializes a single offensive agent on the field and rewards +1 for scoring a goal and 0 otherwise. In order to score a goal, the agent will need to know how to approach the ball and kick towards the goal. The sparse nature of the goal reward makes this task very difficult to accomplish.

SoccerEmptyGoal

The SoccerEmptyGoal task features a more informative reward signal than the Soccer task. As before, the objective is to score a goal. However, SoccerEmtpyGoal rewards the agent for approaching the ball and moving the ball towards the goal. These frequent rewards make the task much more accessible.

SoccerAgainstKeeper

The objective of the SoccerAgainstKeeper task is to score against a goal keeper. The agent is rewarded for moving the ball towards the goal and for scoring a goal. The goal keeper uses a hand-coded policy developed by the Helios RoboCup team. The difficulty in this task is learning how to shoot around the goal keeper.

Installation

cd gym-soccer
pip install -e .

pip install -e git+https://github.com/cycraig/gym-soccer#egg=gym_soccer