The invention relates to an intelligent electric actuator based on CAN bus communication, belonging to the field of control technology for airplane moles and anthropomorphic robots. The intelligent electric actuator comprises a signal demodulation circuit, a motor driving integrated circuit and a DC motor, which are successively connected, the output shaft of the DC motor is connected with a reduction gear unit, the output shaft of the reduction gear unit is coaxially connected with a potentiometer. The intelligent electric actuator comprises a micro-control chip and a CAN bus driver. The micro-control chip is connected with a host computer through the CAN bus driver and a CAN bus, receives the control commands of the host computer, generates PWM signals and transmits the signals to the signal demodulation circuit. The potentiometer is connected with the micro-control chip 26 which collects the position signals of the potentiometer, and transmits the position signals to the host computer. The intelligent electric actuator has small volume, high reliability, low power consumption and high intelligence, is suitable for composing distributed control systems, greatly lowers the control pressure of a host control machine, and reduces the leas number of the host control machine.