The invention relates to an information technology automatic control field, the method is made up of road sign designing method, road sign position, road sign incriminating and navigating device, and road sign incriminating and control flow. The road sign designing method is a gray mode road sign, which is made up of two long black bar with the same width, four transverse long black bar with the same width and the middle numbers, the printed road sign is pasted on the plane vertically to the ground, such as the wall or side surface of computer desk, the height is similar to the camera height of robot, the incriminating and navigating device is only robot with a single camera, finally, it is accomplished road sign incrimination and control flow. The flow carries on binarization to the 256 gray images, then it is scanned and detected, finally the road sign number can be incriminated; the mode is simple, and the cost is low.