At present, the robot of the ship cleaning system is controlled by the wireless industrial controller in common. To solve the problem of that the wireless controller cannot display the working condition or route automatically, a control system which can display the working station remote and route automatically. This system, based on ARM and Linux, includes rocker circuit, serialport ZigBee circuit and video recording circuit. The automatic control algorithm, the tracking Q(λ) algorithm based on image recognition, is to control the robot tracking automatically. From the test results, this system can control the robot automatically, and the speed of convergence of tracking Q(λ) algorithm is 13.8% faster than Qlearning algorithm or 22.8% than Q(λ) algorithm.