3 Simon Dobson Lorcan Coyle G.M.P. O'Hare Mike Hinchey 2009 Sixth IEEE Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems 119-124 20/04/2009 Mobile sensors are an attractive proposition for environmental sensing, but pose significant engineering problems. Not least amongst these is the need to match the behaviour of the sensor platform to the physical environment in which it operates. We present initial work on using models of physical processes to generate models for autonomic control, and speculate that these can be used to improve the confidence we can place in sensed data.