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The sensor consists on a calibrated camera and laser dot projector system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The onboard hazard avoidance system determines the position of the projected dots in the image and through a triangulation process detects potential hazards. The paper presents the design parameters for this sensor and describes the image based solution for hazard avoidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system presented here was tested extensively in day and night conditions in Lunar analogue environments. 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