Glossary

Serves as a reference for some of the key terms used in this documentation.

A

Action

What the agent performs in an environment in order to obtain a reward.

Agent

Who takes decisions in an environment based on rewards and punishments.

B

Bench

A virtual environement that allows for a series of operations to occur.

C

Characterization

The process of analyzing a vessel such that we are able to determine its contents.

Command Line

A place where a user can enter commands into the computer from a terminal.

D

Distillation

Distillation is a process where materials in a mixture are seperated using their boiling points.

E

Environment

Medium in which a Lab Manager and/or agent interacts with vessels or other agents performing necessary operations.

Extraction

Extraction is a separation process consisting in the separation of a substance from a matrix using different densities.

L

Lab Manager

Lab managers direct actions and inspect results from sub agents that carry out tasks for individual benches. It also takes in materials from bench to bench using a vessel.

M

Material

A material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object.

R

Reinforcement Learning

A type of Machine Learning that uses an agent to perform actions in an environment in order to receive optimal outcomes and maximize rewards.

Reward

Method used to train Machine Learning models to make optimal decisions.

S

Solute

The component that is dissolved in the solution.

Solvent

The liquid in which a solute is dissolved to form a solution.

V

Vessel

A container used to hold mixtures or materials in ChemGymRL experiments.