Gym-DC: A Distribution Centre Reinforcement Learning Environment

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Abstract

Distribution centres in supply chains receive shipments and forward them to transport providers for the next part of their journey to their final destinations. In some Physical Internet proposals, distribution centres will be autonomous. The decision system should choose a transport provider for each packet. Reinforcement learning is a well-established method for learning policies by acting in an environment and observing states. Coupled with Deep Learning, it has shown significant results in competitive environments like board games. To develop and evaluate Reinforcement Learning solutions for managing a distribution center on the Physical Internet, we need a simulated environment that should be as close as possible to real-world conditions. We present Gym-DC - the first framework for Reinforcement Learning research for distribution centres and Physical Internet hubs, based on the OpenAI Gym.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Image Processing. ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges - Proceedings
EditorsJean-Jacques Rousseau, Bill Kapralos
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages687-699
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783031377419
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2022 - Montréal, Canada
Duration: 21 Aug 202225 Aug 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13644 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontréal
Period21/08/2225/08/22

Keywords

  • OpenAI gym
  • Physical Internet
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • simulator

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