介绍了国内外采煤机智能化发展的现状：采煤机目前正朝着智能机器人化的方向发展，处于智能化初级阶段。阐述了采煤机智能化发展历程及趋势：英国远程操作长壁工作面（ROLF）计划、采煤工作面自动化系统（MINOS）、美国航空航天局（NASA）长壁自动化合作项目、澳大利亚煤炭工业研究计划（ACARP）、澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）项目、欧盟长壁钻井设备新型机械化与自动化（NEMAEQ）等6项科研项目在采煤机智能化发展中扮演了重要角色；采煤机发展趋势在于利用不断发展的监测传感及远程控制技术代替人工干预及操作，不断提高工作面设备的生产效率及可靠性，朝信息化、一体化、无人化、智能化的方向发展。从采煤机智能感知、智能控制和智能通信3个方面介绍了采煤机智能化关键技术，指出基于煤岩识别的智能截割技术、智能滚筒调速技术、采煤机精确定位技术和基于三维地质模型的采煤机规划开采技术是亟待突破的关键技术。从采煤机降尘和降噪2个方面对采煤机智能化发展过程中不可忽视的人机关系进行了论述。

This paper introduces the current situation of intelligent development of shearer at home and abroad. The shearer is currently developing towards intelligent robotics and is in the primary stage of intelligence. This paper elaborates on the development process and trends of intelligent shearer. There are six scientific research projects that have played important roles in the intelligent development of shearer, including the UK remotely operated longwall face (ROLF) program, mine operating system (MINOS), NASA long wall automation cooperation project, Australian Australian coal industry’s research program (ACARP), Australian commonwealth scientific and industrial research organization (CSIRO) project, and EU new mechanisation and automation of longwall and drivage equipment (NEMAEQ). The development trend of shearer is to use continuously developing monitoring, sensing, and remote control technologies to replace manual intervention and operation, continuously improve the production efficiency and reliability of working face equipment, and develop towards informationization, integration, unmanned, and intelligent direction. This paper introduces the key technologies of intelligent perception, intelligent control, and intelligent communication of shearer. It points out that intelligent cutting technology based on coal rock recognition, intelligent drum speed regulation technology, precise positioning technology of shearer, and planning and mining technology based on three-dimensional geological models are key technologies that urgently need to be broken through. The human-machine relationship that cannot be ignored in the intelligent development process of shearer is discussed from two aspects: dust reduction and noise reduction.