APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS PARKING AND METHOD THEREOF

An apparatus for controlling autonomous parking and method thereof are provided. The apparatus for controlling autonomous parking according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure a sensor unit for acquiring information around a host vehicle, a storage for storing driver's tendency information upon autonomous parking, and a controller communicatively connected to the sensor unit. Here, the controller is configured to: search for an available parking space based on the acquired information around the vehicle, determine whether the available parking space is next to a pillar, determine whether a passenger exists on the side of the pillar when parking in the available parking space, set a parking target position based on the driver's tendency information when the passenger gets off and set a parking longitudinal offset so that a door and a side mirror of the vehicle do not interfere with the pillar, and perform autonomous parking by varying the parking target position according to the offset set above.