3-DoF Gyroscope is one of the fundamental building blocks of any guidance, navigation and control system. The physical properties exhibited by the gyroscope are relevant in the field of sea, air and space vehicles. Attitude control, momentum wheel control and satellite orientation are some of the applications of the 3-DoF gyroscope. While sliding mode control is one of the promiment variable structure control that has been used to solve a lot of nonlinear control problems, adaptive fuzzy belongs to the family of intelligent control that can solve some of the very complex nonlinear control problems where there is partial to no knowledge of the system or where there is a substantial dynamic variation in the plant. It can adapt itself over the domain of compact input set. Both the control schemes are able to drive the error to zero and thus stabilize the plant about a given fixed point ensuring stability and boundedness of all the signals. This paper deals with practical implementation of sliding mode and direct adaptive fuzzy control on quanser gyroscope. Practical results are shown to be in comformity with the simulation results. © 2019 IEEE.