An optical disk apparatus includes: a light irradiator operable to converge a light beam and irradiate an information carrier with the converged light beam; a traverse motor operable to move the light beam in a direction traversing a track formed on a surface of the information carrier; and a tracking controller operable to control the traverse motor to scan the track with the light beam. The tracking controller includes a deviation detector operable to generate a detection signal, a tracking driving circuit operable to generate a driving signal, an integrator operable to integrate a magnitude of a signal corresponding to the driving signal over a predetermined time period and an abnormal state detector operable to detect an abnormal state of the traverse motor based on an output of the integrator.