Due to the influence of seawater medium on the strong absorption and shielding effect of electromagnetic waves,the covert sailing of underwater vehicles makes its underwater navigation and positioning become a difficulty and a hot research field. The existing underwater navigation and positioning technology is mainly based on the traditional autonomous navigation of the inertial navigation system(INS). To correct the cumulative error caused by INS,various auxiliary navigation technologies such as dead reckoning(DR)navigation,geophysical matching navigation and underwater acoustic navigation have been developed. This paper systematically introduces the basic principles,main characteristics and research progress of the abovementioned underwater navigation technologies and their combination methods,and then looks forward the development trend and application of underwater navigation technology in the future.