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Using antiderivative to find velocity from acceleration

I have a quick question.

Last week my calculus class started teaching antiderivatives. If there is a function A(t) which gives acceleration as a function of time, then it's antiderivative is a function V(t) which gives velocity as a function of time (the antiderivative of that would be position), plus a constant C of course.

Now suppose we have an accelerometer sensor on a robot. If I can take the numerical antiderivative (if I can even do that), would that give me the velocity of the robot at that time (assuming the robot started off not moving)?
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