A crane is a machine equipped with a hoist which is mainly used both to lift and lower materials and move them horizontally to different places. However, the underactuated structure of the crane makes difficult to control. In the practical situations, however, the achievement of both transporting trolley to target position and reducing payload sway is not always easy. The main objective is to evaluate different types of controllers for controlling the trolley position and swing motion by conducting a study on the position and swing angle characteristics of different controllers. The various controllers used for the analysis are conventional PID and PD controller, fuzzy-tuned PID and PD controller, LQR, and LQG. The analysis shows that the LQG controller has the best performance even in the presence of a disturbance.