The invention discloses a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle cooperative search method under communication constraint, which belongs to the field of unmanned aerial vehicle regulation and control, and comprises the following steps of: firstly, determining the coverage area of each unmanned aerial vehicle; secondly, carrying out two-dimensional gridding processing on a given search region, and calculating an area coverage rate corresponding to each unmanned aerial vehicle at each moment; thirdly, setting an initial position, a speed and a direction of each unmanned aerial vehicle randomly , and determining a communication distance d between the unmanned aerial vehicles according to the communication quality; fourthly, establishing two neural networks with identical structures and different parameters for each unmanned aerial vehicle in each flight control system, and initializing the neural networks; fifthly, respectively calculating a node position of each unmanned aerial vehicle at the next moment by using the initialized unmanned aerial vehicles and a neural network, updating corresponding neural network parameters, carrying out loop iteration, and connecting all nodes to obtain a corresponding search path; and finally, enabling each unmanned aerial vehicle to fly according to the respective search path to complete the search task. According to the multi-unmanned aerial vehicle cooperative search method, the maximum search range is achieved, and meanwhile the communication quality is guaranteed.