Systems, methods, and machines for automated screw anchor driving

An automated control system for a screw anchor driving machine comprising:

• a plurality of control nodes;
• a digital processor controllably coupled to the plurality of control nodes to perform an automated screw anchor driving operation with the driving machine to embed a screw anchor;
• a plurality of sensor nodes;
• and
• a storage device communicatively coupled to the digital processor, the storage device storing program code executable by the digital processor to cause the digital processor to calculate an upper leg length, to calculate an actual embedment depth based on the calculated upper leg length, and to drive a screw anchor substantially to the actual embedment depth based in part on information received from at least one of the sensor nodes during a driving operation, wherein the program code causes the processor to control the control nodes to determine that reaching the actual embedment depth is not necessary and to terminate the automated screw anchor driving operation prior to reaching the actual embedment depth when the information received from at least one of the sensor nodes indicates that a specified driving condition has occurred.