The invention discloses an unstructured road identification method, which comprises the steps of: S1, acquiring a color image in front of a mobile robot in the running process, and preprocessing the acquired color image; S2, performing region segmentation on the image obtained by preprocessing; S3, performing edge detection on the preprocessed image; S4, and performing fusion extraction on the image obtained after edge detection, so as to obtain road regions. The unstructured road identification method is implemented by the steps of: firstly, acquiring the color image in front of the mobile robot, and preprocessing the acquired color image; secondly, subjecting the image to region segmentation, and extracting edge features; and finally, fusing region segmentation and edge feature information to obtain the road regions. According to the unstructured road identification method, an OTSU algorithm is adopted in region segmentation, a multi-directional sobel operator edge detection algorithm is adopted in edge detection, the time complexity is small, the algorithms have good identification effect for a new environment, the robustness thereof is greatly enhanced, and the precision and validity of calculation are improved.