The invention relates to a rising and resetting device of a bow-like collector for contacting an overhead line of railway vehicles, more specifically to a control device for rise and fall of a pantograph on high-speed EMUs, locomotives and urban rail vehicles, simultaneously, the invention discloses a control method using the control device. The control device comprises a first cock connected with a general air pipe and used for controlling supply of compressed air, a sequentially connected air filter for filtering the compressed air, a one-way check component, and a second cock communicated with the one-way check component. With the technical scheme, the invention provides the control device for rise and fall of the pantograph of the railway vehicles, the control device is characterized by strong current accepting capability and high reliability, simultaneously, and the control device occupies little space, and is structured very compactly.