how to change the reward parameter in RL toolbox every time step?

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Hi,
I am using RL toolbox for energy mangement of a energy storage. my reward is like follow:
C*P where C is a parameter ant P the action. As the problem is energy mangemnt, the C which is the price of the power is difffrent every time step (for this exampl 1 hour)
currently in my simulink model i use a ps counter to count evert time sample of simulink and give a value to C for each time sample, but its causing problems. Is there any way to acess the time step number of rl toolbox?

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Emmanouil Tzorakoleftherakis
Edited: Emmanouil Tzorakoleftherakis on 16 Nov 2020
One way is to implement your logic in your reward subsystem using a MATLAB Fcn block. Execute the MATLAB Fcn block every Ts time units (1hr in your problem) and add a persistent variable that keeps track of how many times the reward subsystem has been accessed.
One comment on your RL problem design - if C depends on time only, that should also be used as an observation (alternatively, you could use the time stamp itself).
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Emmanouil Tzorakoleftherakis
If you right click the MATLAB Fcn block, select Block Parameters and change the Sample Time.
You cannot assign dynamic epsilon values I believe, but you can change the decay rate and the minimum epsilon values to allow the agent to explore more (see here for example).
mary
mary on 19 Nov 2020
Thank you very much for your answer. However, I hope dynamic epsilon rate and also learn factor needs to be added in future versions.

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