Agent

An Agent is a simple container object which represents information about the agent, i.e., its position and orientation, and the GridObject which it holds. Note that, despite its name, the Agent object does not represent the decision process of the agent, but only information relative to the agent in the environment.

class Agent(position, orientation, grid_object=None)

Information relative to the agent.

NOTE: This does not necessarily represent the true full state of the agent; e.g., the agent field of an observation objects, would only contain the observable versions of the agent’s state.

Creates the agent at position with orientation and holding grid_object.

Parameters

• position (Position) – position of the agent relative to some area.

• orientation (Orientation) – orientation of the agent relative to some area.

• grid_object (Optional[GridObject]) – object held by the agent.

Note

Agent objects are used in both State and Observation, and thus contextually contains different types of information. For example, the Agent instance of an Observation object may not contain the agent’s global state position, but only its local position (relative to its POV).