Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significant potential for product design: AI can check technical and non-technical constraints on products, it can support a quick design of new product variants and new AI methods may also support creativity. But currently product design and AI are separate communities fostering different terms and theories. This makes a mapping of AI approaches to product design needs difficult and prevents new solutions. As a solution, this paper first clarifies important terms and concepts for the interdisciplinary domain of AI methods in product design. A key contribution of this paper is a new classification of design problems using the four characteristics decomposability, inter-dependencies, innovation and creativity. Definitions of these concepts are given where they are lacking. Early mappings of these concepts to AI solutions are sketched and verified using design examples. The importance of creativity in product design and a corresponding gap in AI is pointed out for future research.

本文旨在将人工智能技术与产品设计领域相结合。首先提出设计问题的四个特性，即可分解性、相互依存性、创新和创造力，并提供了概念的定义。早期的设计范例证明了这些特性与人工智能解决方案的对应关系，同时指出了当前人工智能中在产品设计中存在的创造力匮乏问题。

产品设计中人工智能方法的问题考察