The invention provides an intelligent control system and a control method for a scraper conveyer, which belong to the intelligent control systems for coal mine exploitation. The intelligent control system for the scraper conveyer comprises a laser scanning ranging device, a ray ranging transmitter, an ultrasonic level sensor, a current transducer, a master controller, a variable frequency and speed regulation controller, a coal crushing controller, a conveyor gesture controller and a conveyor chain stretching controller, wherein the laser scanning ranging device, the ray ranging transmitter, the ultrasonic level sensor and the current transducer transmit detection signals to the master controller in a wireless communication manner, and the master controller sends control instructions to the variable frequency and speed regulation controller, the coal crushing controller, the conveyor gesture controller and the conveyor chain stretching controller in the wireless communication manner. The running state of the scraper conveyer is mastered at any time and corresponding devices are controlled timely through monitoring of the laser scanning ranging device, the ray ranging transmitter, the ultrasonic level sensor and the current transducer, so that the scraper conveyer can be operated in an optimum running state.