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Instead of assigning the tilting angles by the control rule, the recent research predetermines the tilting angles and leaves the magnitudes of thrusts with the only control signals. These tilting angles are designed to mimic the cat-trot gait while avoiding the singular decoupling matrix in feedback linearization. To complete the discussions of the cat-gait inspired tilt-rotor gaits, this research addresses the analyses on the rest of the common cat gaits, walk, run, transverse gallop, and rotary gallop. It is found that the singular decoupling matrix exists in walk gait, transverse gallop gait, and rotary gallop gait; the decoupling matrix can hardly be guaranteed to be invertible analytically. Further modifications (scaling) are conducted to these three gaits to accommodate the application of feedback linearization; the acceptable attitudes, leading to invertible decoupling matrix, for each scaled gait are evaluated in the roll-pitch diagram. The modified gaits with different periods are then applied to the tilt-rotor in tracking experiments, in which the references are uniform rectilinear motion and uniform circular motion with or without the equipment of the modified attitude-position decoupler. All the experiments are simulated in Simulink, MATLAB. The result shows that these gaits, after modifications, are feasible in tracking references, especially for the cases equipped with the modified attitude-position decoupler.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/robotics11030060","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,15]],"date-time":"2022-05-15T09:48:22Z","timestamp":1652608102000},"page":"60","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Cat-Inspired Gaits for a Tilt-Rotor\u2014From Symmetrical to Asymmetrical"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5378-7842","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhe","family":"Shen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 1138654, Japan"}]},{"given":"Takeshi","family":"Tsuchiya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 1138654, Japan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"540","DOI":"10.1109\/TCST.2014.2330999","article-title":"A novel overactuated quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle: Modeling, control, and experimental validation","volume":"23","author":"Ryll","year":"2015","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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