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A surgical navigation system based on IGSTK (Image-Guided Surgical Toolkit) that guide medical robot to drill pedicle screw into vertebra precisely is presented. The surgical location device used is NDI Polaris Vicra® optical tracking system and the assistance robot is KUKA® Robot KR 5 sixx R650. Message communication between the navigation system and KUKA robot is implemented based on OpenIGTLink...