The invention discloses a homography matrix based visual servo control method for a shortest path. The method comprises steps as follows: motion of a robot is decomposed into three stages, firstly, the robot is rotated to face a position point where a target image is located, the position point where the target image is located is called a target point for short, then the robot is horizontally moved to the target point, finally, the robot is rotated to an angle of a target pose, and the robot motion can be controlled according to corresponding control laws at each stage. According to the method, elements in a homography matrix are directly utilized to constitute error functions, homography matrix decomposition is not required, robustness for camera parameters and image noise is better, and meanwhile, the problems about unknown depth information of a monocular camera and nonholonomic constraint of a tracked robot are solved, so that the robot reaches the target pose stably through the shortest path.