Abstract: With the rapid development of information technology, artificial intelligence, and robotics, unmanned autonomous systems have demonstrated tremendous application potential in fields such as military, aerospace, marine exploration, disaster rescue, and intelligent transportation. Distributed cooperative control, as a key technology for achieving efficient and flexible collaboration among multiple unmanned autonomous systems, has become a research focus. A review is conducted on the research progress in distributed cooperative control of unmanned autonomous systems. Firstly, it discusses the core theories in the aspects of consensus problems, formation control, and distributed optimization. Then, combining the practical applications of current multiple unmanned autonomous systems, it presents the latest research achievements in unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned surface vessels, unmanned underwater vehicles, and multi-modal cooperative control. Finally, it explores the future challenges and development in this field.