2022-12-072022-12-072020-11-16Acharya, S. R., & Hutapea, P. (2020, November 16-19). Design Considerations for Shape Memory Alloy Actuator based Active Steerable Needle. Poster presented at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) Virtual Conference.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/8186Poster presented at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) Conference, which took place virtually November 16-19, 2020.The objective of this project is to present a design of active steerable surgical needle that can actively and controllably bend during tissue insertion to reach target location with accuracy. A design consideration on the nitinol actuator in the active needle will be explained, a prototype is fabricated and tested and a computational study will be discussed.1 pageengPublic Domainhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/Poster presentationsSurgical technologyBiomedical engineeringText