Moving robot and control method thereof

Disclosed is a control method of a moving robot configured to drive a work area where a plurality of beacons, the control method comprising a radio direction acquiring step of acquiring radio direction information from the beacons; a first distance tracking step of tracking first distance information between the moving robot and the beacons based on the radio direction information, after the radio direction acquiring step; a second distance tracking step of tracking second distance information between the moving robot and an object existing in the work area via a distance sensor provided in the moving robot; and a first comparison step of comparing the first distance information with the second distance information, wherein location recognition of the moving robot is performed based on the radio direction information, when the first distance is equal to the second distance based on the result of the first comparison step.