The invention discloses a 
cascade hydropower station group optimized dispatching method based on an improved 
quantum-behaved 
particle swarm algorithm. The problems that 
local optimum happens to the 
quantum-behaved 
particle swarm algorithm at the later iteration period due to 
premature convergence for the reason that 
population diversity is decreased, and an obtained 
hydropower station group dispatching scheme is not the optimal scheme are mainly solved. The 
hydropower station group optimized dispatching method based on the improved 
quantum-behaved 
particle swarm algorithm is characterized by comprising the steps that first, power stations participating in calculation are selected, and the corresponding constraint condition of each 
power station is set; then, a two-dimensional real number matrix is used for encoding individuals; afterwards, a 
chaotic initialization 
population is used for improving the quality of an initial 
population, the fitness of each particle is calculated through a penalty 
function method, the individual extreme value and the global extreme value are updated, an update strategy is weighed, the optimum center location of the population is calculated, neighborhood 
mutation search is conducted on the 
global optimum individual, the positions of all the individuals in the population are updated according to a formula, and whether a stopping criterion is met or not is judged. The hydropower station group optimized dispatching method based on the improved quantum-behaved particle swarm 
algorithm is easy to operate, small in number of 
control parameters, high in convergence rate, high in computation speed, high in robustness, reasonable and effective in result, and applicable to optimized dispatching of 
cascade hydropower station groups and optimal allocation of 
water resources.