Abstract: In shearer control system based on remote cloud computing, most of the shearer original data calculation is performed in remote cloud platform, which has problems such as low reliability of data transmission and long time delay, and cannot meet requirements of real-time calculation in the unmanned control of shearer. To solve the above problems, a kind of shearer control system based on KubeEdge edge computing was proposed. Taking application of high precision location and machine vision detection of shearer as examples, the realization method and test of the edge computing architecture based on KubeEdge in the control system of shearer was introduced. The test results show that the application of the edge computing in the control system of the shearer realizes calculation and processing of relevant data of the shearer on the edge side and synchronization of calculation and processing results on remote cloud platform, implements data communication and synchronization of remote cloud platform of shearer, namely the edge node is responsible for the calculation data, remote cloud platform is responsible for the display results, which solves problems of low reliability of data transmission and long time delay existed in control system of shearer based on remote cloud computing. Edge computing and remote cloud computing jointly build a new shearer control system network application platform, which is the research direction of unmanned application of shearer control system.