ale-sys 0.1.2

Rust bindings to the Arcade Learning Environment
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/* *****************************************************************************
 * A.L.E (Arcade Learning Environment)
 * Copyright (c) 2009-2013 by Yavar Naddaf, Joel Veness, Marc G. Bellemare and
 *   the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
 * Released under the GNU General Public License; see License.txt for details.
 *
 * Based on: Stella  --  "An Atari 2600 VCS Emulator"
 * Copyright (c) 1995-2007 by Bradford W. Mott and the Stella team
 *
 * *****************************************************************************
 *  rlglue_controller.hpp
 *
 *  The RLGlueController class implements an RL-Glue interface. It's based off
 *   the FIFOController, but the internals are different.
 **************************************************************************** */

#ifndef __RLGLUE_CONTROLLER_HPP__
#define __RLGLUE_CONTROLLER_HPP__

#include "ale_controller.hpp"
#include "../common/Constants.h"

#ifdef __USE_RLGLUE

// We namespace the whole RL-Glue business to avoid name conflicts
#include <rlglue/Environment_common.h>
#include <rlglue/network/RL_network.h>

namespace ale {

class RLGlueController : public ALEController {
 public:
  RLGlueController(OSystem* osystem);
  virtual ~RLGlueController();

  virtual void run();

 private:
  /** Initializes the RL-Glue business */
  void initRLGlue();
  /** Closes the RL-Glue connection */
  void endRLGlue();
  /** Loops through the RL-Glue statement machine until termination. */
  void rlGlueLoop();

  bool isDone();

  /** RL-Glue interface methods. These methods' output mechanism is to fill the RL buffer
   *  with data. */

  /** Initializes the environment; sends a 'task spec' */
  void envInit();
  /** Sends the first observation out -- beginning an episode */
  void envStart();
  /** Reads in an action, returns the next observation-reward-terminal tuple */
  void envStep();
  /** Performs some RL-Glue related cleanup */
  void envCleanup();
  /** RL-Glue custom messages */
  void envMessage();

  /** RL-Glue helper methods. */

  reward_observation_terminal_t
  constructRewardObservationTerminal(reward_t reward);
  /** Filters the action received by RL-Glue */
  void filterActions(Action& player_a_action, Action& player_b_action);

 private:
  /** RL-Glue variables */
  rlBuffer m_buffer;
  int m_connection;
  observation_t m_observation;
  action_t m_rlglue_action;

  int m_max_num_frames; // Maximum number of total frames before we stop

  ActionVect available_actions;
  bool m_send_rgb;
};

}  // namespace ale

#else  // __USE_RLGLUE

namespace ale {

class RLGlueController : public ALEController {
 public:
  RLGlueController(OSystem* osystem);
  virtual ~RLGlueController() {}

  /** This prints an error message and terminate. */
  virtual void run();
};

}  // namespace ale

#endif  // __USE_RLGLUE

#endif  // __RLGLUE_CONTROLLER_HPP__