APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AUTOMATED DRIVING, AND METHOD THEREFOR

The present invention relates to an autonomous driving control apparatus and an autonomous driving control method, and an exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides the autonomous driving control apparatus (100) including: a driver seating sensor (111) configured to recognize whether or not the driver is seated; a driver monitoring device (112) configured to recognize whether a driver is looking ahead; and a processor (130) configured to determine whether control authority is switchable for activating an autonomous driving control function based on sensing results of the driver seating sensor and the driver monitoring device.