Hurricane Monitoring Drone Simulation

Created a MATLAB algorithm to simulate drones dispersing themselves around a moving hurricane to collect key meteorological data. Based on a moving density map, I used Lloyd's algorithm and k-means clustering to simulate the drones dispersing across the hurricane to optimize their position according to hurricane intensity. I used this algorithm to investigate three different real world solutions to this, including one expensive option with few drones but large communication radius, and another with many cheaper drones with small communication radius. Changing the parameters of this algorithm allowed for these real-world solutions to be tested and evaluated.