The invention discloses an active fault-tolerant control method for a lienar multi-agent tracking system on the basis of slip form control. A distributed fault-tolerant control strategy is put forwardby a distributed observer and a slip form control method by considering the executor faults, the sensor faults, the inherent nonlinearity and the leader unknown control input of a general linear multi-agent tracking system. Firstly, a state tracking error system is established by aiming at each follower, and a sensor fault signal is taken as an auxiliary state amount to establish an augmented tracking error system. In order to simultaneously estimate various faults and the leader unknown control input, an intermediate variable is imported. On the basis of neighbor set output information, a distributed observer is designed for the augmented tracking error system and the intermediate variable, and a global estimation error system is proved to be finally uniformly bounded. According to the obtained observation information, a nonlinear slip form surface is designed for the tracking error system of each follower agent, system robustness is enhanced, and the stability of a sliding mode is proved. According to the fault observation information and the neighbor set output information, a distributed slip form controller is put forward, the state of the error system is guaranteed to reach and be kept at the slip form surface within limited time, and therefore, the fault-tolerant tracking stability of the multi-agent system is realized. The method is used for the fault-tolerant control of the linear multi-agent tracking system with executor faults and sensor faults.