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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps-Based Switched-Mode Power Supply Design Assistant System, Yi Kuang, Zhiyong Johnny Zhang, Bin Duan, Pei Zhang

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Traditional engineering design approaches primarily solve technical problems and often ignore the importance of human factors. To reduce human errors and workload in power electronics, this paper proposes a switched-mode power supply design (SMPS) assistant system based on Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs). This system incorporates both technical requirements and human factors that involve designers' knowledge and skills in the SMPS design domain. First, we identify the critical concepts from power management lab kits and power electronics books, and extract latent sub-skills of SMPS design using exploratory factor analysis to build the starting concept list of FCM. Second, we use factor …