The invention discloses a 2D 
laser scanning based 
rapid detection method for a heading window of a heading 
machine. The detection method comprises that 
horizontal and vertical 2D scanning is carried out on a heading working face, outliers are removed from collected original 
point cloud data; 
linear fitting, 
central line solving and base point determining are carried out on 
outlier removed 
horizontal and vertical 2D scanning 
point cloud data, and preparation for 
window detection is completed; and a target distance is input, a vertical line is drawn at the position in the target distance from the base point, serving as the origin point, in the horizontal 
central line, another vertical line is drawn at the position in the target distance from the base point, serving as the origin point, in the vertical 
central line, the vertical lines intersects with two lines obtained by fitting respectively, point pairs are obtained, the spatial distance of the horizontal 
point pair equals the width of the heading window in the target distance, and the spatial distance of the vertical 
point pair equals the height of the heading window in the target distance. According to the technical scheme of the invention, the sizes of heading windows in 
multiple target distances can be rapidly detected, timely effective reference and correction are provided for workers, and the reasonableness of the practical heading process is ensured.