APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING OBJECT DETECTING SENSOR

Disclosed is an apparatus for cleaning an object detecting sensor including a driving environment acquirer that acquires driving environment information of a vehicle, a cleaning nozzle that ejects a washing liquid for cleaning the object detecting sensor according to an operation period thereof that is set based on the driving environment information, and a controller that calculates a driving state score of the vehicle based on the driving environment information and set the operation period of the cleaning nozzle based on the driving state score.