Considering the safety and timeliness of underwater unmanned vehicles when carrying out a task,a sound emergency response system needs to be established. In this paper,a distributive emergency processing strategy was established to realize fast fault diagnosis and emergency response. Through the backward reasoning and deep reasoning based on the fault mode,and using the reasoning strategy of fault classification diagnosis,the corresponding emergency process for different faults was realized. The correctness of emergency treatment strategy was verified through semi-physical simulation and navigation test,and the security of the underwater unmanned vehicle was improved when carrying out tasks.