This study focused on developing the building blocks required for a collision prevention/avoidance system on a rapid prototyping system such as the Voyager robotic platform. This will allow for future research to enhance collision prevention systems (CPS) or collision avoidance systems (CAS) development through rapid prototyping before launching the systems in real-world applications. In addition to this, the development and implementation of a hybrid path planning algorithm, which can avoid static and dynamic obstacles, was implemented.