智能化无人开采是实现煤矿安全高效开采的技术途径。根据无人控制系统发展的一般规律，分析了综采工作面控制系统发展历程包括远程遥控、自动控制和自主控制3个阶段。综采工作面自主控制需要解决综采工作面环境实时感知、综采“三机”协同控制、高精度煤层地理信息系统、开采工艺智能决策与无人综采工作面评估试验方法5个方面的问题。总结了综采工作面控制系统的3个目标任务：可靠割煤与装煤、保持工作面几何关系、围岩可靠支护；凝练了综采工作面控制系统的8项关键技术：液压支架电液控制技术、综采装备协同控制技术、工作面通信技术、工作面可视化技术、采煤机定位技术、采煤机自动调高技术、工作面自动调直技术、工作面围岩支护控制技术，并分析了综采工作面控制系统关键技术与其目标任务之间的逻辑关系。通过分析综采工作面控制系统关键技术的功能需求和综采工作面自主控制的研究问题，提出了综采工作面由自动控制迈向自主控制首要解决的问题，即工作面煤层地理信息系统精细化、采煤机截割规划策略、工作面围岩智能支护策略以及综采工作面控制系统适用性评估检验方法。

Intelligent unmanned mining is a technical approach to realize safe and efficient mining in coal mines. According to the general law of the development of unmanned control system, the development stages of the longwall mining face control system was analyzed, including remote control, automatic control, and autonomous control. The autonomous control of fully mechanized mining face needs to solve five problems listed as follows: the real-time perception of longwall mining face environment, the coordinated control of "three machines"for fully mechanized mining, the high-precision geographic information system of coal seam, the intelligent decision making of mining sequence and the evaluation experiment method of unmanned fully mechanized mining face. Three objectives and tasks of the fully-mechanized coal mining face control system were summarized, which include reliable cutting and loading of coal, maintaining the geometric relationship of the working face, reliable support of the surrounding rock. Eight key technologies of the fully mechanized face control systems include hydraulic support electro-hydraulic control technology, cooperative control technology of fully mechanized mining equipment, communication technology in working face, working face visualization technology, positioning technology of shearer, automatic heightening technology of shearer, automatic alignment technology of working face, surrounding rock support and control technology of working face. The relation between key technologies and tasks of the longwall mining face control system was analyzed. According to the requirements of key technologies and problems of autonomous control of longwall fully-mechanized coal mining face, the primary problems to be solved from the automatic control to the autonomous control of the lognwallfully-mechanized coal mining face was put forward, including the precise coal seam geographic information system of the fully-mechanized coal mining face, the cutting planning strategy of the shearer, the intelligent support strategy of surrounding rock and the applicability evaluation method of the longwall mining face control system.