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Technology Roadmaps

Welcome to Technology Roadmapping and Development at MIT. Technology roadmaps show the current state, targets and pathway to the future for technologies created by humans. The roadmaps shown here were created by students in 16.887-EM.427 starting in 2019 using a common approach and structure. This main page contains a list of the 37 existing roadmaps, their classification into a 5x5 taxonomy and a “how to” guide for getting started quickly. Roadmaps are presented in a Wikipedia style format which is easy to read and cross-reference

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Technology Roadmap ID Codes

37 Technology Roadmaps

[2SEA] - Solar Electric Aircraft by Alextuj

[3SB] - Space Booms by Howdybrowdy and Ehner024

[2EOS] - Earth Observation Satellites

[3MIM] - Mars In-Situ Mining

[2LCNF] - Laser Confined Nuclear Fusion

[3BAS] - Building Automation System

[2PHA] - PHA Bioplastics Manufacturing

[2HDS] - Healthcare Data Security

[1SLV] - Small Launch Vehicles

[2EVL] - Electric Vertical take off and Landing

[2EVCT] - Electric Vehicle Charging Technology

[1PHROS] - Integrated and Co-located Pumped Hydro Reverse Osmosis System

[2SPA] - Solar Powered HALE Aircraft

[2RS] - Recommendation Systems

[3WEC] - Wave Energy Conversion

[3OSSA] - Optical Payload for Space Situational Awareness

[4AIX] - Adsorption and Ion Exchange

[2RPS] - Retail Payment Systems

[2AUV] - Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

[2BV] - Ballistic Vests

[2PLG] - Plant Genetics

[2SDC] - Satellite Data Communication

[2ZGAM] - Zero Gravity Additive Manufacturing

[2WTG] - Wind Turbine Generator

[2ASGT] - Autonomous System for Ground Transport

[2MRH] - Mixed Reality Headset

[3ESB] - Energy Storage via Battery

[1LV] - Orbital Launch Vehicles

[2HSR] - High Speed Rail Safety

[3RPM] - Reverse Procurement Markets

[2SASOT] - Sparse Aperture Space Optical Telescope

[5ROPP] - Remote Operated Processing Platform

[3RF] - Random Forest

[2RE] - Rocket Engines

[2AIAR] - Computer-Aided Detection Leveraging Machine Learning and Augmented Reality

[2CFTS] - Cryogenic Fuel Tanks in Space

[3S3DCAM] - Smart 3D Camera

[2SHSS] - Soil Health Sensing System

[2ACP] - Autonomy in the Corn Production System

[2NZEB] - Net Zero Energy Building

[S3RT] - Satellite Swarm based Sparse Aperture Radio Telescope

[2BaaS-SC] - Blockchain as a Service for Supply Chain

[3ECAM] - Electrically Conductive Additive Manufacturing

[3EAPA] - Electric Aircraft Propulsion Architectures

[2WHM] - Wearable Health Monitors

[3DAC] - Direct Air Capture

Technology Matrix(5X5)	Matter (M)	Energy (E)	Information (I)	Value (V)	Organisms (L)
Transform / Process (1)	[3MIM] [2PHA] [4AIX] [2ZGAM] [3DAC]	[2LCNF] [3WEC] [2WTG] [2RE] [3EAPA]	[2EOS] [3OSSA] [2SASOT] [3S3DCAM] [2SHSS] [2WHM]		[2PLG ]
Transport / Distribute (2)	[1SLV] [1LV]	[2EVCT]	[2SEA] [2SPA] [2AUV] [2SDC]		[2EVL ]
Store / House (3)	[2CFTS]	[1PHROS] [3ESB]	[3RF]		[2NZEB]
Exchange / Trade (4)			[2HDS]	[3RPM]
Control / Regulate (5)	[3SB] [2BV ]	[3BAS] [2HSR]	[2RS] [2ASGT] [2MRH] [5ROPP] [2AIAR]	[2RPS ]