[Problem] To provide an automatic driving robot control device and control method that enable a vehicle to be operated smoothly while also being caused to conform to a command vehicle speed with high accuracy.
[Solution] The present invention provides an automatic driving robot (drive robot) 4 control device 10 that controls the automatic driving robot 4, which is installed in a vehicle 2 and causes the vehicle 2 to run, such that the vehicle 2 runs in accordance with a defined command vehicle speed, wherein the automatic driving robot 4 control device 10 is provided with: a running state acquisition unit 22 that acquires a running state of the vehicle 2 including a vehicle speed and the command vehicle speed; an operation content inference unit 31 that infers, on the basis of the running state, an operation sequence, which is a sequence of operations of the vehicle 2 at a plurality of times in the future that causes the vehicle 2 to run in accordance with the command vehicle speed, by using an operation inference learning model 40 that was trained by machine learning to infer the operation sequence; and a vehicle operation control unit 23 that extracts, from each of the operation sequences inferred a plurality of times in the past, the operations corresponding to a control time for subsequently controlling the automatic driving robot 4, calculates a weighted sum of these extracted plurality of operations to calculate a final operation value, generates, on the basis of the final operation value, a control signal for controlling the automatic driving robot 4, and transmits the control signal to the automatic driving robot 4.