Connecting the Arduino to MatLab

During the the Fall semester of 2016, I primarily focused on operating the arduino software to electronically control the motors of Viper. There were many challenges with getting MatLab to recognize the arduino. The primary problem was that Linux identifies ports differently than mac or pc and so I had to take a few extra steps to connect MatLab with an arduino. Following the instructions from the following websites successfully established a symbolic link that MatLab could recognize:
http://www.matlabarduino.org/serial-communication.html

http://www.howtogeek.com/199687/how-to-quickly-create-a-text-file-using-the-command-line-in-linux/

https://www.mathworks.com/help/supportpkg/arduinoio/ug/find-arduino-port-on-windows-mac-and-linux.html?requestedDomain=www.mathworks.com